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Deconvolving the Nucleus of Centaurus A Using Chandra PSF Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Margarita Karovska
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
T. Aldcroft
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
M.S. Elvis
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
I.N. Evans
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
G. Fabbiano
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
T.J. Gaetz
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
T. Isobe
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
D. Jerius
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
C. Jones
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
M. Juda
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
A. Kenter
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
D.W. Kim
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
R.P. Kraft
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
S.S. Murray
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
A H. Prestwich
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
F. Primini
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
D.A. Schwartz
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
W. Cui
Affiliation:
Purdue University
E.J. Schreier
Affiliation:
STScI

Abstract

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We describe preliminary results from our study of multi-scale structures in Centaurus A (NGC 5128) obtained using the Chandra X-ray Observatory HRC-I observations. The high-angular resolution Chandra images reveal X-ray multi-scale structures in this object with unprecedented detail and clarity. The region surrounding the Cen A nucleus, believed to be associated with a supermassive black hole, shows structures on arcsecond scales clearly resolved from the central source.

Type
The Inner Regions of Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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