Speaker
Description
eROSITA was successfully launched on board the Russian-German "Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma" (SRG) satellite on July 13th 2019. With this instrument we want to: 1) detect the hot intergalactic medium of more than 100,000 galaxy clusters and groups and the hot gas in filaments between clusters to map out the large scale structure of the Universe for the study of cosmic structure evolution; 2) detect systematically all obscured accreting Black Holes in nearby galaxies and many (up to 3 Million) new, distant active galactic nuclei, and 3) study in detail the physics of galactic X-ray source populations, like pre-main sequence stars, supernova remnants and X-ray binaries. In my talk I will report on the actual performances of the instrument in comparison with the expectations before launch. In particular, I will highlight how eROSITA is already changing what we know about the hot and energetic Universe.
| Abstract type | RU or CN Highlight Talk (please discuss with Coordinators before) |
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