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The 2-8 keV cosmic X-ray background spectrum as observed with XMM-Newton
Molendi, S.; De Luca, A.
We have measured the spectrum of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) in the 2-8 keV range with the high throughput EPIC/MOS instrument onboard XMM-Newton. A large sample of high galactic latitude observations was used, covering a total solid angle of 5.5 square degrees. Our study is based on a very careful characterization and subtraction of the ins…
Probing turbulence in the Coma galaxy cluster
Finoguenov, A.; Böhringer, H.; Miniati, F. +2 more
Spatially-resolved gas pressure maps of the Coma galaxy cluster are obtained from a mosaic of XMM-Newton observations in the scale range between a resolution of 20 kpc and an extent of 2.8 Mpc. A Fourier analysis of the data reveals the presence of a scale-invariant pressure fluctuation spectrum in the range between 40 and 90 kpc and is found to b…
XMM-Newton EPIC observations of 21 low-redshift PG quasars
Porquet, D.; Reeves, J. N.; Brinkmann, W. +1 more
We present an X-ray spectral analysis of 21 low redshift quasars observed with XMM-Newton EPIC. All the sources are Palomar Green quasars with redshifts between 0.05 and 0.4 and have low Galactic absorption along the line-of-sight. A large majority of quasars in the sample (19/21) exhibit a significant soft excess below ∼1-1.5 keV, whilst two obje…
Spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy of cooling clusters of galaxies
Böhringer, H.; Kaastra, J. S.; Branduardi-Raymont, G. +7 more
We present spatially resolved X-ray spectra taken with the EPIC cameras of XMM-Newton of a sample of 17 cooling clusters and three non-cooling clusters for comparison. The deprojected spectra are analyzed with a multi-temperature model, independent of any a priori assumptions about the physics behind the cooling and heating mechanisms. All cooling…
X-ray emission from a metal depleted accretion shock onto the classical T Tauri star TW Hya
Schmitt, J. H. M. M.; Stelzer, B.
We present the X-ray spectrum of TW Hya observed at high and intermediate spectral resolution with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) and the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard the XMM-Newton satellite. TW Hya is the first classical T Tauri star for which simultaneous X-ray data with both high spectral resolution and high sensiti…
X-ray flares reveal mass and angular momentum of the Galactic Center black hole
Grosso, N.; Porquet, D.; Predehl, P. +1 more
We have analysed the light curve of the two brightest X-ray flares from the Galactic Center black hole, one flare observed by XMM-Newton on October 3, 2002 (Porquet et al. \cite{P2003}), and the other flare observed by Chandra on October 26, 2000 (Baganoff et al. \cite{B2001}). The power density spectra show five distinct peaks at periods of ∼100 …
Hard X-ray view of the past activity of Sgr A* in a natural Compton mirror
Gilfanov, M. R.; Sunyaev, R. A.; Sazonov, S. Yu. +6 more
We report the association of the recently discovered hard X-ray source IGR J17475-2822 with the giant molecular cloud Sgr B2 in the Galactic Center region. The broad band (3-200 keV) spectrum of the source constructed from data of different observatories strongly supports the idea that the X-ray emission of Sgr B2 is Compton scattered and reproces…
XMM-Newton observations of the supernova remnant RX J1713.7-3946 and its central source
Ballet, J.; Decourchelle, A.; Giacani, E. +3 more
We present new results from the observations of the supernova remnant (SNR)
Geometry of the non-thermal emission in SN 1006. Azimuthal variations of cosmic-ray acceleration
Ballet, J.; Decourchelle, A.; Ferrando, P. +3 more
Exploring the X-ray sky with the XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey
Page, M. J.; Barcons, X.; Carrera, F. J. +11 more
We present here ``The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey'', composed of two flux-limited samples: the XMM-Newton Bright Source Sample (BSS, hereafter) and the XMM-Newton ``Hard'' Bright Source Sample (HBSS, hereafter) having a flux limit of f_x≃ 7 × 10-14 erg cm-2 s-1 in the 0.5-4.5 keV and 4.5-7.5 keV energy b…