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High Energy

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astronomy-and-astrophysics1 year ago

"eROSITA Unveils Largest X-ray Sky Survey Catalog with 900,000 High-Energy Cosmic Sources"

The German eROSITA consortium has released the largest X-ray catalog ever published, containing about 900,000 distinct sources from the first eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS1). The data, which includes scientific papers describing new results, will revolutionize our knowledge of the universe at high energies. The catalog covers half the X-ray sky and includes supermassive black holes, X-ray-emitting stars, clusters of galaxies, and other exotic sources. The release also provides images of the X-ray sky, individual photon lists, and software for data analysis, with cosmology results expected in approximately two weeks.

science2 years ago

Unprecedented Discovery: Pulsar Emission Reaches Unprecedented Energy Levels

Scientists using the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia have detected the highest energy gamma rays ever from a pulsar, reaching 20 tera-electronvolts. This discovery challenges current theories on the production of pulsed gamma rays and requires a rethinking of how these natural accelerators work. The Vela pulsar now holds the record for the pulsar with the highest-energy gamma rays discovered to date, opening up new possibilities for understanding extreme acceleration processes in highly magnetized astrophysical objects.