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The 2017 Release Cloudy
Abel, N. P.; Keenan, F. P.; Ferland, G. J. +8 more
We describe the 2017 release of the spectral synthesis code Cloudy, summarizing the many improvements to the scope and accuracy of the physics which have been made since the previous release. Exporting the atomic data into external data files has enabled many new large datasets to be incorporated into the code. The use of the complete datasets is …
A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host
Lazio, T. J. W.; Ransom, S. M.; Chatterjee, S. +22 more
Fast radio bursts are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply radio luminosities that are orders of magnitude larger than those of all known short-duration radio transients. So far all fast radio bursts have been detected with lar…
The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs
Smail, I.; Hornschemeier, A. E.; Alexander, D. M. +23 more
We present X-ray source catalogs for the ≈7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin2. Utilizing WAVDETECT for initial source detection and ACIS Extract for photometric extraction and significance assessment, we create a main source catalog containing 1008 sources that are detected i…
BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey. V. X-Ray Properties of the Swift/BAT 70-month AGN Catalog
Treister, E.; Bauer, F. E.; Paltani, S. +18 more
Hard X-ray (≥10 keV) observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can shed light on some of the most obscured episodes of accretion onto supermassive black holes. The 70-month Swift/BAT all-sky survey, which probes the 14-195 keV energy range, has currently detected 838 AGNs. We report here on the broadband X-ray (0.3-150 keV) characteristics of …
An accreting pulsar with extreme properties drives an ultraluminous x-ray source in NGC 5907
Wolter, Anna; Esposito, Paolo; Turolla, Roberto +20 more
Ultraluminous x-ray sources (ULXs) in nearby galaxies shine brighter than any x-ray source in our Galaxy. ULXs are usually modeled as stellar-mass black holes (BHs) accreting at very high rates or intermediate-mass BHs. We present observations showing that NGC 5907 ULX is instead an x-ray accreting neutron star (NS) with a spin period evolving fro…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog: Twelfth data release
Nandra, Kirpal; Pâris, Isabelle; Petitjean, Patrick +43 more
We present the Data Release 12 Quasar catalog (DR12Q) from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III. This catalog includes all SDSS-III/BOSS objects that were spectroscopically targeted as quasar candidates during the full survey and that are confirmed as quasars via visual inspection of the spectra, h…
Discovery of a 0.42-s pulsar in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 7793 P13
Salvaterra, R.; Haberl, F.; Greiner, J. +11 more
NGC 7793 P13 is a variable (luminosity range ∼100) ultraluminous X-ray source proposed to host a stellar-mass black hole of less than 15 M⊙ in a binary system with orbital period of 64 d and a 18-23 M⊙ B9Ia companion. Within the EXTraS (Exploring the X-ray Transient and variable Sky) project, we discovered pulsations at a per…
The close environments of accreting massive black holes are shaped by radiative feedback
Lamperti, Isabella; Ho, Luis C.; Fabian, Andrew C. +13 more
The majority of the accreting supermassive black holes in the Universe are obscured by large columns of gas and dust. The location and evolution of this obscuring material have been the subject of intense research in the past decades, and are still debated. A decrease in the covering factor of the circumnuclear material with increasing accretion r…
New Physical Insights about Tidal Disruption Events from a Comprehensive Observational Inventory at X-Ray Wavelengths
Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico; Auchettl, Katie; Guillochon, James
We perform a comprehensive study of the X-ray emission from 70 transient sources that have been classified as tidal disruption events (TDEs) in the literature. We explore the properties of these candidates, using nearly three decades of X-ray observations to quantify their properties and characteristics. We find that the emission from X-ray TDEs i…
Growing supermassive black holes in the late stages of galaxy mergers are heavily obscured
Sanders, D. B.; Harrison, F.; Stern, D. +10 more
Mergers of galaxies are thought to cause significant gas inflows to the inner parsecs, which can activate rapid accretion on to supermassive black holes (SMBHs), giving rise to active galactic nuclei (AGN). During a significant fraction of this process, SMBHs are predicted to be enshrouded by gas and dust. Studying 52 galactic nuclei in infrared-s…