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20122026
most citedThe SRG X-ray orbital observatory, its telescopes and first scientific results

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102 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Particle acceleration and non-thermal broadband spectrum of extended shocked outflows in black hole binary V4641 Sgr - a galactic pevatron

Andrei Bykov, Sergei Osipov, Vadim Romansky +2

Stellar mass black holes accreting at a super-Eddington rate produce strong outflows and non-thermal radiation up to PeV energy. Recently, very high energy (VHE) emission was disco…

astro-ph.IM2026

EXPO: a quantum leap in fast, wide-band X-ray polarimetry for astrophysics

Paolo Soffitta, Sebastien Guillot, Ian Hutchinson +137

The Enhanced X-ray Polarimetry Observatory (EXPO) is a mission concept proposed to ESA as an M8 candidate, with a prospective launch in 2041. Building on the scientific success of…

astro-ph.CO2026

Average soft X-ray surface brightness profile of massive galaxy clusters in Magneticum simulations

A. Kruglov, N. Lyskova, I. Khabibullin +2

The self-similar growth of massive galaxy clusters suggests that radial profiles of their key thermodynamic properties should have identical shapes after proper mass- and redshift-…

astro-ph.HE2026

Rates of tidal disruption events from constrained cosmological simulations of the local Universe: population properties and implications for transient surveys

Julian S. Sommer, Ildar Khabibullin, Klaus Dolag +4

(abridged) Motivated by upcoming surveys like LSST, we estimate tidal disruption event (TDE) rates using the constrained cosmological Simulation of the LOcal Web (SLOW) to test the…

astro-ph.HE2026

CRESCENDO II: Spectral cosmic rays with improved energy losses and realistic supernova seeding

Daniel Karner, Ludwig M. Böss, Klaus Dolag +1

Context. Cosmological simulation codes with subgrid models for cosmic rays (CRs) help us better understand their impact on baryonic feedback and non-thermal radiation in galaxies a…

astro-ph.CO2026

The Treble Clef radio phoenix and its old nonthermal filaments

A. Botteon, M. Brienza, K. Rajpurohit +15

By inspecting data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS), we noticed a peculiar bright and filamentary radio source at low-galactic latitude (). This source,…

astro-ph.HE2026

Sloshing Motions in Abell 3571 Revealed by XRISM/Resolve Velocity Mapping

Itsuki Aihara, Congyao Zhang, Sora Nakajima +12

Minor mergers can induce sloshing motions in the intracluster medium, leaving characteristic signatures in the thermodynamic structure and gas kinematics of cluster cores. Abell 35…

astro-ph.GA2026

Kinematics of the Weak Cool-Core Cluster A3571 Observed with XRISM: Low Cooling Rate Balanced by Low Heating Rate?

Hannah McCall, Irina Zhuravleva, Kyoko Matsushita +10

Most XRISM galaxy cluster observations to date have focused on AGN feedback or actively merging systems. The weak cool-core cluster A3571 was observed in four XRISM Cycle 1 pointin…

astro-ph.GA2026

Dark and Luminous Matter in the Coma Cluster: Probing Galaxy Cluster Assembly Through Filaments with Weak Lensing and Multiwavelength Observations

K. HyeongHan, K. Finner, M. James Jee +11

The Coma cluster (Abell 1656; ) is a nearby rich galaxy cluster and a key laboratory for studying cluster assembly in the Cosmic Web. We characterize its projected dark ma…

astro-ph.CO2026

Learning the Universe: Constrained simulations of the Coma galaxy cluster -- I. Radial X-ray and Compton-y signatures

Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Stuart McAlpine, Richard Stiskalek +7

We present a suite of 50 high-fidelity simulations of Coma cluster analogues constructed from BORG/MANTICORE constrained initial conditions and evolved with the IllustrisTNG galaxy…

astro-ph.HE2026

New galaxy cluster in the Zone of Avoidance SRGe CL0512.7+3712. Discovery and multi-wavelength characterization

Ildar Khabibullin, Eugene Churazov, Natalya Lyskova +9

The census of massive clusters of galaxies in the local Universe is almost complete, thanks to their prominent observational signatures at X-ray, optical, and sub-mm wavelengths. N…

astro-ph.HE2026

From reflection to scattering: Polarimetric signatures of funnel-type outflows. Modeling obscured ultraluminous X-ray sources

Varpu Ahlberg, Alexandra Veledina, Eugene Churazov +1

Super-Eddington accretion onto compact objects is expected to produce optically thick outflows with a funnel-shaped cavity that may collimate the emission. At inclinations higher t…

astro-ph.HE2026

Iron He-triplet signatures of shocks in the hottest galaxy clusters. Z/W line ratio, line broadening, and electron-ion temperature equilibration

Eugene Churazov, Yuri Ralchenko, Ildar I. Khabibullin +5

A merger of clusters naturally drives shocks with Mach number in the intra-cluster medium (ICM). This process creates several distinct signatures, including…

astro-ph.HE2026

Where within the 3C 84 jet are -rays produced?

Georgios F. Paraschos, Ioannis Liodakis, Svetlana Jorstad +49

The location of -ray creation and emission within extra-galactic jets is a matter of active debate. One particularly well-suited source to pinpoint the location is the nearby, b…

astro-ph.HE2026

Southern eROSITA bubble as a forward shock and the low-metallicity CGM. South-east side story

E. Churazov, I. I. Khabibullin, A. M. Bykov +4

Unlike the complicated X-ray and radio structure observed in the North Polar Spur area, the South-Eastern part of the eROSITA bubbles can be reasonably well described as a propagat…

astro-ph.GA2026

Spectroscopic galaxy redshifts in the Peanut cluster -- a massive nearly head-on cluster merger shortly after pericenter passage

I. Zaznobin, N. Lyskova, I. Bikmaev +13

The Peanut cluster (SRGe J023820.8+200556, SRGe CL0238.3+2005, = 0.42) has recently emerged as a candidate for a rare, massive merger, potentially analogous to the Bulle…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Minimalist Merger Interpretation of XRISM's Gas Velocity Measurements in the Coma Cluster

Congyao Zhang, Eugene Churazov, Ildar Khabibullin +3

The recent microcalorimetric X-ray observations of the Coma cluster by XRISM have sparked active discussion regarding the physical origin of its gas velocity features. Here, we dem…

astro-ph.GA2025

ASKAP discovery of a 30 kpc bipolar outflow from the edge-on disk of the nearby spiral galaxy ESO 130-G012

Baerbel S. Koribalski, Roland M. Crocker, Ildar Khabibullin +6

We present the discovery of a large-scale, limb-brightened outflow, extending at least 30 kpc above and below the star-forming disk of the edge-on galaxy ESO 130-G012 (D = 16.9 Mpc…

astro-ph.HE2025

Detection of Compton scattering in the jet of 3C 84

Ioannis Liodakis, Sudip Chakraborty, Frédéric Marin +77

3C 84 is the brightest cluster galaxy in the Perseus Cluster. It is among the closest radio-loud active galaxies and among the very few that can be detected from low frequency radi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Simulating the LOcal Web (SLOW) -- VI: Gamma-ray Emission in the Local Universe

Ludwig M. Böss, Ildar Khabibullin, Daniel Karner +4

Context: Diffuse -ray emission from cosmic-ray (CR) protons scattering off the gas in the intracluster and intergalactic medium remains out of reach for current observations. De…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 7 cited

X-ray panorama of the SS433/W50 complex by SRG/eROSITA

Rashid Sunyaev, Ildar Khabibullin, Eugene Churazov +3

The Galactic microquasar SS 433 and the radio nebula W50 surrounding it present a prototypical example of a hyper-Eddington binary system shaping its ambient interstellar medium vi…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

PeV particle acceleration and non-thermal emission in the `minimalist' model of the extended jets in W50/SS433

A. M. Bykov, S. M. Osipov, V. I. Romansky +3

The W50 nebula around microquasar SS~433, powered by supercritical accretion, features two `extended jets' (tens of pc long and a few pc wide) from which polarized X-ray and very h…

astro-ph.SR2025

XRISM observations of solar flare X-ray emission reflected in the Earth's atmosphere

Hiromasa Suzuki, Jun Kurashima, Koji Mori +13

The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), launched into low-Earth orbit in 2023, observes the reflection of solar flare X-rays in the Earth's atmosphere as a by-product o…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

X-ray flux -- mass relation for galaxy clusters

Natalia Lyskova, Eugene Churazov, Ildar Khabibullin +3

We use a subsample of co-detections of the ACT and MaDCoWS cluster catalogs to verify the predicted relation between the observed X-ray flux in the 0.5-2~keV band and the clu…