We report X-ray observations of the nearby, powerful radio galaxy Pictor A with the Chandra Observatory and optical and near uv observations of its western radio hot spot with the Hubble Space Telescope. X-ray emission is detected from the nucleus, a 1. ′ 9 (110 kpc) long jet to the west of the nucleus, the western radio hot spot some 4. ′ 2 (240 kpc) from the nucleus, and the eastern radio lob...

We combine results from ROSAT, Chandra, and multifrequency VLBA observations of the Compact Steep Spectrum quasar 3C 48 in an attempt to understand why the radio source is so small and unusual. The X-ray spectrum shows no evidence for the excess absorption which might have allowed us to conclude that 3C 48 is small because it is bottled up by cold neutral gas. We infer that the X-ray spectrum o...

Chandra observations of the type 1.8, low-redshift (z 1⁄4 0:115), red (J KS 2) quasar 2MASSJ 104943+583750 (2M1049+5837) indicated an unusually hardX-ray spectrum (HR 0:6), suggesting obscuration ofNH 4 ; 10 cm 2 and a flat 0:4 power-law slope. A higher signal-to-noise ratio XMM-Newton observation reported here reveals a more complex spectrum, being extremely hard above 2 keV, 0:6, with a well-...

in this research fe-tio2 nanocomposites with different molar ratios of fe/ti were prepared as nano-photocatalyst using a modified sol-gel process at ambient temperature. crystallographic properties of nanocomposites were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd). surface morphology and mean particle size of nanocomposites were specified by field emission scanning electron microscopy (fesem) and ...

We present the results of a Suzaku spectroscopic study of the soft extended X-ray emission in the H II region M17. The spectrum of the extended emission was obtained with a high signal-to-noise ratio in a spatially-resolved manner using the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS). We established that the contamination by unresolved point sources, the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission, the cosmic X-ray bac...

We summarize some recent results related to observations and interpretation of hard X-ray and low-energy -ray diffuse Galactic continuum emission. Combined spectra based on data from OSSE, COMPTEL and EGRET are presented. In the energy range 1-30 MeV covered by COMPTEL the spectrum of the diffuse emission has been measured and is consistent with a combination of bremsstrahlung and inverse-Compt...

We describe Chandra High-Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer observations of RT Cru, the first of a new sub-class of symbiotic stars that appear to contain white dwarfs (WDs) capable of producing hard X-ray emission out to greater than 50 keV. The production of such hard X-ray emission from the objects in this sub-class (which also includes CD −57 3057, T CrB, and CH Cyg) challenges our un...

We report the discovery of X-ray emission from NGC 7027, a prototypical object for the study of the formation and evolution of planetary nebulae (PNs). Observations with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory show that the X-ray emission from NGC 7027 is extended and is bipolar in morphology. The ACIS spectrum displays strong emission from highly ioniz...

zno nanorod was prepared by microwave assisted method. the crystal structure of the nano powders were confirmed by x-ray diffraction analysis and the mean particle size was estimated by the scherrer,s formula .the surface morphology of the nano particles were analyzed by   using sem . the absorption spectrum of the material in the uv-vis range was recorded .the energy band gap of the material w...

We report results of an 18 ks exposure with the ACIS instrument on Chandra of the powerful z = 0.62 radio galaxy 3C 220.1. The X-ray emission separates into cluster gas of emission-weighted kT ∼ 5 keV and 0.7-12 keV luminosity (to a radius of 45 arcsec) 5.6 × 10 44 ergs s −1 , and unresolved emission (coincident with the radio core). While the extended X-ray emission is clearly thermal in natur...