Seven eyes on the sky: the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spektr-RG observatory
speaker: Manami Sasaki
Abstract:
Two years ago, the new eROSITA X-ray telescope, which was developed by a German consortium, was launched successfully onboard the Russian Spektr-RG observatory. eROSITA is carrying out the first all-sky survey in the X-rays up to 10 keV with a much better resolution and higher sensitivity than what was available before in the soft X-ray band. It will thus provide us with a new map of the hot, energetic universe with more than one million extragalactic and Galactic objects. I will talk about the telescope and its mission and present the first results which we have obtained so far.