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First science highlights from SRG/eROSITA

Sergio Campana, Françoise Combes, David Elbaz, Thierry Forveille, Rubina Kotak, Laura Pentericci and Steve Shore

A&A, 647 (2021) E1

Published online: 26 February 2021
First science highlights from SRG/eROSITA

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The eROSITA X-ray telescope on SRG

P. Predehl, R. Andritschke, V. Arefiev, V. Babyshkin, O. Batanov, W. Becker, H. Böhringer, A. Bogomolov, T. Boller, K. Borm et al. (83 more)

A&A, 647 (2021) A1

Published online: 26 February 2021
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The Abell 3391/95 galaxy cluster system - A 15 Mpc intergalactic medium emission filament, a warm gas bridge, infalling matter clumps, and (re-) accelerated plasma discovered by combining SRG/eROSITA data with ASKAP/EMU and DECam data

T. H. Reiprich, A. Veronica, F. Pacaud, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, N. Ota, J. Sanders, M. Kara, T. Erben, M. Klein, J. Erler et al. (37 more)

A&A, 647 (2021) A2

Published online: 26 February 2021
First science highlights from SRG/eROSITA

Radio observations of the merging galaxy cluster system Abell 3391-Abell 3395

M. Brüggen, T. H. Reiprich, E. Bulbul, B. S. Koribalski, H. Andernach, L. Rudnick, D. N. Hoang, A. G. Wilber, S. W. Duchesne, A. Veronica et al. (13 more)

A&A, 647 (2021) A3

Published online: 26 February 2021
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Discovery of a supercluster in the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey: X-ray properties, radio halo, and double relics

V. Ghirardini, E. Bulbul, D. N. Hoang, M. Klein, N. Okabe, V. Biffi, M. Brüggen, M. E. Ramos-Ceja, J. Comparat, M. Oguri et al. (21 more)

A&A, 647 (2021) A4

Published online: 26 February 2021
First science highlights from SRG/eROSITA

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First constraints on the AGN X-ray luminosity function at z ~ 6 from an eROSITA-detected quasar

J. Wolf, K. Nandra, M. Salvato, T. Liu, J. Buchner, M. Brusa, D. N. Hoang, V. Moss, R. Arcodia, M. Brüggen et al. (12 more)

A&A, 647 (2021) A5

Published online: 26 February 2021
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Extreme ultra-soft X-ray variability in an eROSITA observation of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0707−495

Th. Boller, T. Liu, P. Weber, R. Arcodia, T. Dauser, J. Wilms, K. Nandra, J. Buchner, A. Merloni, M. J. Freyberg et al. (2 more)

A&A, 647 (2021) A6

Published online: 26 February 2021
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A giant X-ray dust scattering ring discovered with SRG/eROSITA around the black hole transient MAXI J1348–630

G. Lamer, A. D. Schwope, P. Predehl, I. Traulsen, J. Wilms and M. Freyberg

A&A, 647 (2021) A7

Published online: 26 February 2021

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Volume 647 (March 2021)(open volume)
1. The LMC in X-rays: First-Light picture taken with eROSITA onboard SRG
  (“First science highlights from SRG/eROSITA” Special Issue, 2021, A&A, 647)
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Volume 646 (February 2021)
1. The Yutu-2 Rover that measured the in-situ lunar phase curves (Jiang, T., et al., 2021, A&A, 646, A2)
2. Radio relic in MACS J0717+3745 - power laws everywhere (Rajpurohit, K., et al., 2021, A&A, 646, A56)
3. Blue & red shifted X-ray ejecta structures in Cassiopeia A (Picquenot, A., et al., 2021, A&A, 646, A82)
4. The β Pictoris disk extends out to ∼2000 AU (Janson, M., et al., 2021, A&A, 646, A132)
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Volume 645 (January 2021)
1. Plasma flow velocity and magnetic field in vortices (Yadav, N., et al., 2021, A&A, 645, A3)
2. Herschel view of the star-forming regions in Perseus (Pezzuto, S., et al., 2021, A&A, 645, A55)
3. Sky distribution of >7 million main sequence halo stars (Koppelman, H. H., & Helmi, A., 2021, A&A, 645, A69)
4. Giant molecular clouds resolved in a tidal dwarf galaxy (Querejeta, M., et al., 2021, A&A, 645, A97)
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