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Flows of X-ray gas reveal the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
Jon M. Miller, Jelle S. Kaastra, M. Coleman Miller +18
Tidal forces close to massive black holes can violently disrupt stars that make a close approach. These extreme events are discovered via bright X-ray and optical/UV flares in gala…
An Ultrasoft X-ray Flare from 3XMM J152130.7+074916: a Tidal Disruption Event Candidate
Dacheng Lin, Peter W. Maksym, Jimmy A. Irwin +6
We report on the discovery of an ultrasoft X-ray transient source, 3XMM J152130.7+074916. It was serendipitously detected in an XMM-Newton observation on 2000 August 23, and its lo…
The Megasecond Chandra X-Ray Visionary Project Observation of NGC 3115 (II): properties of point sources
Dacheng Lin, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-wah Wong +7
We have carried out an in-depth study of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) detected in the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 3115, using the Megasecond Chandra X-Ray Visionary Project obs…
The Megasecond Chandra X-Ray Visionary Project Observation of NGC 3115 (III): luminosity functions of LMXBs and dependence on stellar environments
Dacheng Lin, Jimmy A. Irwin, Ka-wah Wong +7
We have studied the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 3115, using the Megasecond Chandra X-Ray Visionary Projec…
The Cheshire Cat Gravitational Lens: The Formation of a Massive Fossil Group
Jimmy A. Irwin, Renato Dupke, Eleazar R. Carrasco +3
The Cheshire Cat is a relatively poor group of galaxies dominated by two luminous elliptical galaxies surrounded by at least four arcs from gravitationally lensed background galaxi…
The Scatter in the Hot Gas Content of Early-Type Galaxies
Yuanyuan Su, Jimmy A. Irwin, Raymond E. White +1
Optically-similar early-type galaxies are observed to have a large and poorly understood range in the amount of hot, X-ray-emitting gas they contain.To investigate the origin of th…