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HEASARC Picture of the Week: Compact Objects



Title Date
X-ray Emission from the Crab Nebula Crab Nebula Oct 25, 1999
The Fastest Metronomes in the Universe kHz QPO Jan 17, 2000
Jets from SS 433 SS433/pspc Apr 24, 2000
A Halo of X-rays Cyg X3 halo May 8, 2000
Affinity of X-ray Pulsars Vela Pulsar/ Chandra Jun 19, 2000
Lunar Eclipse of Sco X-1 Sco X-1 eclipse Jun 26, 2000
High School Confidential: Stellar Corpse Found IC 443 Neutron Star January 8, 2001
Supernova Bullseye G11.2-0.3/ACIS January 23, 2001
A Mate for the Crab? HRC/Psr0540-69 March 12, 2001
Black Black Holes Chandra/black black holes March 19, 2001
Everything Spins spinning black hole May 14, 2001
X Marks the Hole LETG/XTE J1118+480 June 11, 2001
Compact Binary Quantization? LMXB schematic July 2, 2001
The Fall of Aquila X-1 SAX/Aql X1 October 8, 2001
Anti-Matter Engine B1509-58/chandra November 12, 2001
Neutron Star too Cool for School? Cool Neutron Star/Chandra January 21, 2002
Neutron Star Misnomer? 3C58/Chandra April 15, 2002
Wild Wind Blowing BeppoSAX May 27, 2002
Measuring Neutron Stars 1E1207 X-ray Spectrum June 10, 2002
Near a Nearby Black Hole Iron line from a microquasar measured by BeppoSAX September 2, 2002
Dissecting a Neutron Star Neutron Star Absorption Line spectrum November 11, 2002
Coming and Going in X-rays Chandra Image of SS433 December 16, 2002
Black Widow's Wake Composite Chandra/Optical image of the Black Widow March 3, 2003
Dust in the Wind? CHANDRA Image of Cyg X-3 April 14, 2003
How Compact are Compact Objects? X-ray spectra of an isolated Neutron star April 21, 2003
A Weaker Field Keck and Chandra views of 4C41.17 June 16, 2003
A Counter Jet Vela Pulsar Jet July 7, 2003
Geminga's Trick of the Tail Geminga x-ray Tails August 25, 2003
The Spin Zone spinning black hole illustration September 22, 2003
Star, Interrupted tidal disruption of a star March 1, 2004
Where Do Pulsars Get Their Kicks? Chandra Image of CTA1 Pulsar August 23, 2004
The Mouse that Soared X-ray and VLA image of the Mouse September 27, 2004
Compact Swarm Compact objects swarm near the GC January 24, 2005
A Whole Hole of Holes Chandra Survey of the Lockman Hole February 28, 2005
The Ultra Luminous Chandra + optical image of M74 April 4, 2005
Dancing Dwarfs Chandra observation of RX J0806.3+1527 June 6, 2005
Watching the Accelerator INTEGRAL image of TeV Source June 27, 2005
Turn Turn Turn Chandra observation of 47 Tuc W August 8, 2005
Missing Holes Chandra X-ray/optical image of Westerlund 1 November 7, 2005
Shaking the Foundations Simulation of gravitational radiation from merging black holes April 24, 2006
Could this be Magic? Magic observations of LS I +61 303 May 29, 2006
Runaway Corpse Composite image of IC 443 June 5, 2006
How Goes the Flow? Chandra spectrum of GRO J1655-40 June 26, 2006
Wobble of the Dead XMM Newton image of wobbly neutron star July 3, 2006
Goal XMM Newton image of SNR RCW103 July 10, 2006
The Blast Fades RXTE spectra of RS Oph outburst July 24, 2006
Shrapnel XMM Image of psr B1929+10 August 7, 2006
Heart of Globulars XMM Images of globulars September 25, 2006
New X-ray New Star INTEGRAL image of new X-ray nova December 4, 2006
Exotic, but not too Exotic? XMM Newton image of RX J1856.5-3754 March 26, 2007
The Weight Artist impression of an intermediate mass black hole May 28, 2007
A New High? INTEGRAL/IBIS image of HESS J1616-508 August 6, 2007
The Stripper Pulsar stripping material from a planet September 17, 2007
Hidden Dwarfs Exposed INTEGRAL detection of an intermediate polar October 1, 2007
The Heaviest Stellar Hole Artist impression of a black hole accreting a stellar wind; inset: Hubble and Chandra images of M33 X-7 October 22, 2007
Equal and Opposite Reaction Runaway neutron star December 3, 2007
Fixing a Hole Littlest black hole April 7, 2008
The Beating of the Dwarf AE Aqr June 23, 2008
New Pulsar Fermi Gamma-ray pulsar October 20, 2008
Old; New New Fermi Gamma-ray pulsars December 29, 2008
Born Again X-ray (Chandra) and optical composite of the Black Widow Pulsar January 5, 2009
Spinning Repeater XMM-Newton image of SGR 1627-41 January 19, 2009
Smoke Rings Swift XRT image of sgrj1550-5418 flare March 2, 2009
Blind Pulsars Fermi All Sky Map showing pulsar locations July 13, 2009
Outburst of a Magnetic Personality Artist's impression of a magnetar and an XMM X-ray lightcurve of the outburst August 3, 2009
Heavyweight Artist conception of HD 49798 September 14, 2009
Darkness Dancing Chandra and Hubble composite of NGC 6240 October 12, 2009
New Pulsars New Millisecond Pulsars in the Fermi Catalog January 25, 2010
A Test of Type Ia X-ray and optical image of M31 February 22, 2010
Dust and the Wind X-ray and IR image of G54.1+0.3 April 12, 2010
Dirty Universe X-ray image of Magnetar with dust rings April 19, 2010
Seeds of the Supermassive? Composite X-ray, optical and IR image of M82 and center (inset) May 3, 2010
Power Going Backward Artist conception of spinning black hole with jet June 14, 2010
Ultracompact Oxygen Artist conception of the ultracompact binary 4U 0614+091 June 28, 2010
Recoil Composite Hubble/Chandra image of CID 42 July 5, 2010
Weighing a Neutron Star Artist view of Swift J1749 system October 18, 2010
A New Rent? Composite image of M100 showing possible new black hole November 29, 2010
Jets Stopped Short Hanny's Voorwerp January 24, 2011
What's Eating the Crab? Gamma-ray flare from the Crab February 28, 2011
Silent Superball Superfluid neutron star in Cas A SNR March 7, 2011
The Ring X-ray/optical image of Arp 147, showing ring of black holes March 21, 2011
The Beginning of the End of Time Chandra Deep Field South June 20, 2011
Clumps in the Wind Chandra Deep Field South July 11, 2011
A Pulsar's Tail Chandra image of the tail of PSR J0357+3205 July 18, 2011
Falling In Chandra and VLT images of NGC 3115 and its central black hole August 1, 2011
Swift and a Swallow Artist rendition of a Black Hole swallowing a star August 29, 2011
More from the Crab Crab Gamma-ray pulsations October 17, 2011
The Tell-Tale Hole Chandra observation of the Gorgon's Head in Perseus October 31, 2011
Headspinning Fermi LAT observation of the youngest millisecond pulsar, PSR J1823-3021A November 7, 2011
The Spin of SpaceTime RXTE X-ray history of Cyg X-1 November 28, 2011
The Littlest Black Hole Artist rendition of IGR J17091-3624; inset: X-ray brightness curve December 19, 2011
Slowly Turning X-ray/optical image of outer SMC+SXP 1062 January 2, 2012
Jet Taking Off VLBA and X-ray studies of jet from H17430=-322 black hole January 16, 2012
ULX Unmasked X-ray image of the ULX February 27, 2012
March Wind Artist impression of the black hole wind in IGR J17091-3624 March 12, 2012
We Have Ignition This graph based on RXTE data provides an overview of the changing character of T5X2's X-ray emission during outbursts from Oct. 13 to Nov. 19, 2010. March 19, 2012
ISCO Facto? Artist interpretation of accretion disks around spinning and non-spinning black holes April 2, 2012
A Black Hole Too Big? Composite image of ULX in M83 May 7, 2012
Lost Chandra/HST images of CID 42 June 11, 2012
Escaping the Explosion Composite image of SNR MSH 11-16A and IGR J11014 August 6, 2012
Pinpointing a Monster Black Hole Keck Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics observation of Sgr A* September 10, 2012
Another Hole in the Galaxy New Black Hole Candidate October 8, 2012
When Holes Collide Black Hole merger simulation October 15, 2012
Black Hole Symmetry The Symmetry of Black Hole jets December 17, 2012


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