8–13 Sept 2019
Europe/Rome timezone
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eROSITA on SRG

12 Sept 2019, 17:15
20m
Solicited FUTURE MISSIONS

Speaker

Dr Andrea Merloni (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

Description

The next generation of wide-area, sensitive X-ray surveys designed to map the hot and energetic Universe will be heralded by eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array), the core instrument on the Russian-German Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission, successfully launched in July 2019. eROSITA will perform a deep survey of the entire X-ray sky, and will be about 30 times more sensitive than ROSAT in the soft energy band (0.5-2 keV), while in the hard band (2-10 keV) it will provide the first ever true imaging survey of the full sky. I will provide an overview of the science objectives of SRG/eROSITA, report on the status of the mission and highlight the next milestones in the scientific program of observations.

Affiliation MPE

Primary author

Dr Andrea Merloni (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

Co-author

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