Wine and Cheese Spring 2021

This page records the schedule, titles and abstracts of the JHU/STScI CAS Astrophysics Wine & Cheese Series in Spring 2021.

Wine and Cheese sessions with one speaker will have a 50 minute talk with 10 minutes for questions. Sessions with two speakers will have two 25 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions. Sessions in the Graduate Student Series will have three 15 minute talks, each with 5 minutes for questions.

01 February

Vadim Burwitz (MPE)

The eROSITA X-ray Telescope Onboard the Spektr-RG Observatory: First Results
In my talk I will describe the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Russian-German mission Spektr-RG that was launched in July 2019 from Baikonur. After an inflight calibration and performance verification phase the all sky survey commenced in December 2019. Since then two all sky surveys have been completed. Work is ongoing to analyse the rich yield of data. I will also present an overview of the first exiting scientific results that have been obtained over the last year (from stars, x-ray binaries to AGN, Clusters as well as diffuse X-ray emission).