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

371 citations · 547 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the first eROSITA survey I. Candidate catalogs

P. Weber, T. P. Roberts, S. Hämmerich +28

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are luminous non-nuclear X-ray point sources embedded in galaxies. Their luminosities exceeding 10^39 erg/s potentially require sub-Eddington acc…

astro-ph.HE2026

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey DR2: Cumulative X-ray catalogues from the first three surveys and multi-wavelength counterparts in the western Galactic hemisphere

M. E. Ramos-Ceja, G. Lamer, M. Salvato +111

The eROSITA telescope array on board the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission began its all-sky survey program in December 2019, scanning the sky at an approximately six-month cad…

astro-ph.HE2026

The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background II. spectra and morphology of the eROSITA bubbles in the western Galactic hemisphere

Michael C. H. Yeung, Martin G. F. Mayer, Andy Strong +15

The eROSITA bubbles (eRObub) were discovered in 2020 in the first SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey, and are among the most extended structures in the X-ray sky. Using eROSITA all-sky map…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

The average X-ray spectrum of the volume-complete M-, F-, G-, and K-type star sample within 10 pc of the Sun

Xueying Zheng, Gabriele Ponti, Nicola Locatelli +15

F, G, K and M type stars are the most abundant stellar population in the Milky Way and are expected to contribute to its diffuse X-ray emission. Yet their intrinsic average X-ray s…

astro-ph.HE2026

Shaping the diffuse X-ray sky: Structure, Variability and Visibility

Philipp Girichidis, Erika Rea, Ralf S. Klessen +5

The Local Bubble (LB) is a hot, low-density cavity in the solar neighborhood, inside which the Solar System is currently located. The X-ray emission from such bubbles is strongly g…

astro-ph.GA2026

Low-mass stars dominate the hot (0.7 keV) Galactic X-ray emission

G. Ponti, M. C. H. Yeung, G. Stel +12

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way is composed of a tenuous atmosphere filled with multi-phase plasma, including a warm-hot virialised component. Recent studies sugge…

astro-ph.CO2025

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: A comprehensive X-ray analysis of the Hydra I galaxy cluster

Alpish Srivastava, Thomas H. Reiprich, Angie Veronica +4

The Hydra I galaxy cluster (Abell 1060) is a nearby example of a low-temperature cluster that exhibits intermediate cool core and non-cool core properties. Our aims are to extend t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…

astro-ph.GA2025

Deep XMM-Newton observation reveals hot gaseous outflow in NGC 5746

Roman Laktionov, Manami Sasaki, Jörn Wilms

We present a deep XMM-Newton observation of the massive, edge-on galaxy NGC 5746. The total exposure time of 250 ks provides unprecedented sensitivity to study the diffuse hot gas…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Evidence for protons accelerated and escaped from the Puppis A region using \textit{Fermi}-LAT observations

Roberta Giuffrida, Marianne Lemoine-Gourmard, Marco Miceli +7

Supernova remnants (SNRs) interacting with molecular clouds are interesting laboratories to study the acceleration of cosmic rays and their propagation in the dense ambient medium.…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Studying the multi-phase interstellar medium in the Large Magellanic Cloud with SRG/eROSITA -- I. Analysis of diffuse X-ray emission

Martin G. F. Mayer, Manami Sasaki, Frank Haberl +9

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), being a nearby and actively star-forming satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is an ideal site to observe the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM)…

astro-ph.HE2025

Teleios (G305.4-2.2) -- the mystery of a perfectly shaped new Galactic supernova remnant

Miroslav D. Filipovic, Zachary J. Smeaton, Roland Kothes +35

We present the serendipitous radio-continuum discovery of a likely Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G305.4-2.2. This object displays a remarkable circular symmetry in shape, making…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 19 cited

The SRG/eROSITA diffuse soft X-ray background. I. The local hot bubble in the western Galactic hemisphere

Michael C. H. Yeung, Gabriele Ponti, Michael J. Freyberg +10

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Surveys (eRASSs) combine the advantages of complete sky coverage and the energy resolution provided by the charge couple device and offer the most holistic…

astro-ph.HE2024

eROSITA (eRASS1) study of the Canis Major overdensity: Developing a multi-wavelength algorithm for classifying faint X-ray sources

Sara Saeedi, Manami Sasaki, Jonathan Knies +6

Using the data of eROSITA (extended Roentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) on board Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (Spektr-RG, SRG) taken during the first eROSITA all-sky survey…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

A look at the high energy aspects of the supernova remnant G309.8+00.0 with eROSITA and Fermi-LAT

Miltiadis Michailidis, Gerd Pühlhofer, Andrea Santangelo +2

Supernova remnant (SNR) detection along the Galactic plane poses a number of challenges. The SNR G309.8+00.0 lies exactly on the Galactic plane, with its center coinciding with gal…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

Morphological Evidence for the eROSITA Bubbles Being Giant and Distant Structures

Teng Liu, Andrea Merloni, Jeremy Sanders +13

There are two contradictory views of the eROSITA bubbles: either a 10 kpc-scale pair of giant bubbles blown by the Galactic center (GC), or a 100 pc-scale local structure coinciden…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 14 cited

The first all-sky survey of star-forming galaxies with eROSITA: Scaling relations and a population of X-ray luminous starbursts

E. Kyritsis, A. Zezas, F. Haberl +11

We present a study of X-ray normal galaxies using data from the first all-sky scan of the eROSITA X-ray survey. eRASS1 provides the first unbiased X-ray census of normal galaxies a…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

X-ray counterpart detection and gamma-ray analysis of the SNR G279.0+01.1 with eROSITA and Fermi-LAT

Miltiadis Michailidis, Gerd Pühlhofer, Andrea Santangelo +2

A thorough inspection of known Galactic Supernova Remnants (SNRs) along the Galactic plane with SRG/eROSITA yielded the detection of the X-ray counterpart of the SNR G279.0+01.1. T…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 5 cited

Discovery of the Goat Horn complex: a deg diffuse X-ray source connected to radio loop XII

Nicola Locatelli, Gabriele Ponti, Andrea Merloni +7

A dozen of patches of polarized radio emission spanning tens of degrees in the form of coherent and stationary loops are observed at radio frequencies across the sky. Their origin…

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.HE2024★ 9 cited

Study of X-ray emission from the S147 nebula by SRG/eROSITA: supernova-in-the-cavity scenario

Ildar I. Khabibullin, Eugene M. Churazov, Nikolai N. Chugai +11

The Simeis~147 nebula (S147), particularly well known for a spectacular net of -emitting filaments, is often considered one of the largest and oldest known supernova rem…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Study of X-ray emission from the S147 nebula with SRG/eROSITA: X-ray imaging, spectral characterization, and a multiwavelength picture

Miltiadis Michailidis, Gerd Pühlhofer, Werner Becker +11

Simeis 147 (S147, G180.0-01.7, "Spaghetti nebula") is a supernova remnant (SNR) extensively studied across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to giga-electronvolt -…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 7 cited

eROSITA narrowband maps at the energies of soft X-ray emission lines

Xueying Zheng, Gabriele Ponti, Nicola Locatelli +10

[abridged] Hot plasma plays a crucial role in regulating the baryon cycle within the Milky Way, flowing from the energetic sources in the Galactic center and disc, to the corona an…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

First Study of the Supernova Remnant Population in the Large Magellanic Cloud with eROSITA

Federico Zangrandi, Katharina Jurk, Manami Sasaki +11

The study of the entire population of SNRs in a galaxy helps us to understand the underlying stellar populations, the environments, in which the SNRs are evolving, and the stellar…