Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era

H Feng, R Soria - New Astronomy Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are accreting black holes that may contain the missing
population of intermediate mass black holes or reflect super-Eddington accretion physics …

Populations of X-ray sources in galaxies

G Fabbiano - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Today's sensitive X-ray observations allow the study of populations of X-ray binaries in
galaxies as distant as 20–30 Mpc. Photometric diagrams and luminosity functions applied to …

X-ray emission from star-forming galaxies–I. High-mass X-ray binaries

S Mineo, M Gilfanov, R Sunyaev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Based on a homogeneous set of X-ray, infrared and ultraviolet observations from Chandra,
Spitzer, GALEX and 2MASS archives, we study populations of high-mass X-ray binaries …

Compact object modeling with the StarTrack population synthesis code

K Belczynski, V Kalogera, FA Rasio… - The Astrophysical …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive description of the population synthesis code StarTrack. The
original code has been significantly modified and updated. Special emphasis is placed here …

The evolution of normal galaxy X-ray emission through cosmic history: constraints from the 6 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South

BD Lehmer, AR Basu-Zych, S Mineo… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present measurements of the evolution of normal-galaxy X-ray emission from $
z\quad\approx $0–7 using local galaxies and galaxy samples in the≈ 6 Ms Chandra Deep …

Chandra studies of the X-ray gas properties of galaxy groups

M Sun, GM Voit, M Donahue, C Jones… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic analysis of 43 nearby galaxy groups (kT 500= 0.7–2.7 keV or M
500= 10 13–10 14 h− 1 M☉, 0.012< z< 0.12), based on Chandra archival data. With robust …

A Chandra perspective on galaxy-wide X-ray binary emission and its correlation with star formation rate and stellar mass: new results from luminous infrared galaxies

BD Lehmer, DM Alexander, FE Bauer… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new Chandra observations that complete a sample of seventeen (17) luminous
infrared galaxies (LIRGs) with D< 60 Mpc and low Galactic column densities of NH≲ 5× 10 …

A catalogue of low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC

QZ Liu, J Van Paradijs… - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2007 - aanda.org
We present a new edition of the catalogue of the low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy and
the Magellanic Clouds. The catalogue contains source name (s), coordinates, finding chart …

X-ray binary evolution across cosmic time

T Fragos, B Lehmer, M Tremmel… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
High-redshift galaxies permit the study of the formation and evolution of X-ray binary (XRB)
populations on cosmological timescales, probing a wide range of metallicities and star …

Testing Galaxy Feedback Models with Resolved X-Ray Profiles of the Hot Circumgalactic Medium

U Chadayammuri, Á Bogdán… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The hot (> 10 6 K) phase of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains a large
fraction of baryons in galaxies. It also retains signatures of the processes that shaped the …