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20182024
most citedThe SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey: First X-ray catalogues and data release of the western Galactic hemisphere

371 citations · 544 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE2024★ 371 cited

The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey: First X-ray catalogues and data release of the western Galactic hemisphere

A. Merloni, G. Lamer, T. Liu +142

The eROSITA telescope array aboard the Spektrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite began surveying the sky in December 2019, with the aim of producing all-sky X-ray source lists and sk…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 52 cited

X-ray detection of a nova in the fireball phase

Ole König, Jörn Wilms, Riccardo Arcodia +17

Novae are caused by runaway thermonuclear burning in the hydrogen-rich envelopes of accreting white dwarfs, which results in the envelope to expand rapidly and to eject most of its…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 2 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit: a consolidated design for the system requirement review of the preliminary definition phase

Didier Barret, Vincent Albouys, Jan-Willem den Herder +296

The Athena X-ray Integral Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer, studied since 2015 for flying in the mid-30s on the Athena space X-ray Observatory, a versatile ob…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 111 cited

SIXTE -- The Generic X-ray Instrument Simulation Toolkit

Thomas Dauser, Sebastian Falkner, Maximilian Lorenz +8

We give an overview of the SImulation of X-ray TElescopes (SIXTE) software package, a generic, mission-independent Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for X-ray astronomical instrumenta…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 8 cited

The Athena X-ray Integral Field Unit

Didier Barret, Thien Lam Trong, Jan-Willem den Herder +100

The X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU) is the high resolution X-ray spectrometer of the ESA Athena X-ray observatory. Over a field of view of 5' equivalent diameter, it will deliver…