eROSITA - Nearby Young Stars in X-rays
Abstract
X-ray surveys are well suited to detect, identify and study young stars based on their high levels of magnetic activity and thus X-ray brightness. The eROSITA instrument onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite will perform an X-ray all-sky survey that surpasses existing data by a sensitivity increase of more than an order of magnitude. The 4 yr survey is expected to detect more than half a million stars and stellar systems in X-rays.
- Publication:
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Young Stars & Planets Near the Sun
- Pub Date:
- January 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921315005943
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1510.01161
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUS..314..280R
- Keywords:
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- X-rays: stars;
- stars: activity;
- stars: coronae;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- To appear in "Young Stars and Planets Near the Sun", Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 314 (Cambridge University Press), J.H. Kastner, B. Stelzer, S.A. Metchev, eds