Presskit: Space Telescope Studies Solar System X-ray Glow
Here you can find images, videos and graphics for download for the MPE-article “Space Telescope Studies Solar System X-ray Glow”
You are free to use the visuals for your own eROSITA reporting, please give the appropriate credit with each visual.
Reconstruction of how the diffuse X-ray sky should have appeared to eROSITA from May to October 2021. At any given moment, eROSITA has observed only a 1° wide field along its scanning direction, which is indicated by a cyan curve. Each 360° scan took 4 hours and was done approximately perpendicularly to the direction of the Sun, which is located in the overexposed moving region. See eROSITA Press Kit for information on the underlying sky image: https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7461950/erass1-presskit
K. Dennerl, J. Sanders, H. Brunner & the eSASS team (MPE); E. Churazov, M. Gilfanov (IKI)
SRG/eROSITA orbit in the Sun-Earth system: Scanning the sky far away from Earth and approximately perpendicular to Earth’s direction, eROSITA is the first X-ray telescope to avoid geocoronal emission.
K. Dennerl (MPE)

