no code implementations • 21 Dec 2020 • G. Lamer, A. D. Schwope, P. Predehl, I. Traulsen, J. Wilms, M. Freyberg
We report the discovery of a giant dust scattering ring around the Black Hole transient MAXI J1348-630 with SRG/eROSITA during its first X-ray all-sky survey.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2020 • T. H. Reiprich, A. Veronica, F. Pacaud, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, N. Ota, J. Sanders, M. Kara, T. Erben, M. Klein, J. Erler, J. Kerp, D. N. Hoang, M. Brüggen, J. Marvil, L. Rudnick, V. Biffi, K. Dolag, J. Aschersleben, K. Basu, H. Brunner, E. Bulbul, K. Dennerl, D. Eckert, M. Freyberg, E. Gatuzz, V. Ghirardini, F. Käfer, A. Merloni, K. Migkas, K. Nandra, P. Predehl, J. Robrade, M. Salvato, B. Whelan, A. Diaz-Ocampo, D. Hernandez-Lang, A. Zenteno, M. J. I. Brown, J. D. Collier, J. M. Diego, A. M. Hopkins, A. Kapinska, B. Koribalski, T. Mroczkowski, R. P. Norris, A. O'Brien, E. Vardoulaki
We used dedicated SRG/eROSITA X-ray, ASKAP/EMU radio, and DECam optical observations of a 15 sq. deg region around the interacting galaxy cluster system A3391/95 to study the warm-hot gas in cluster outskirts and filaments, the surrounding large-scale structure and its formation process.
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 10 Dec 2020 • P. Predehl, R. A. Sunyaev, W. Becker, H. Brunner, R. Burenin, A. Bykov, A. Cherepashchuk, N. Chugai, E. Churazov, V. Doroshenko, N. Eismont, M. Freyberg, M. Gilfanov, F. Haberl, I. Khabibullin, R. Krivonos, C. Maitra, P. Medvedev, A. Merloni, K. Nandra, V. Nazarov, M. Pavlinsky, G. Ponti, J. S. Sanders, M. Sasaki, S. Sazonov, A. W. Strong, J. Wilms
The halo of the Milky Way provides a laboratory to study the properties of the shocked hot gas that is predicted by models of galaxy formation.
Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena