astrophysics

Astrophysicists from IKI and Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences studied compact star cluster Westerlund 2. The paper with the results of the study is accepted for publication in MNRAS and is available on arXiv.org.

Astrophysicists from IKI and Ioffe Institute, using the data from SRG/eROSITA space telescope, studied the properties of a shock in Coma cluster of galaxies. The paper summarising their results was accepted for publication in Astronomy&Astrophysics.

Academician Rashid Sunyaev was awarded the Max Planck Medal, the highest prize in theoretical physics granted by the German Physical Society (DPG), in recognition of “numerous and fundamental contributions to relativistic astrophysics and cosmology.”

Twenty years ago on October 17, 202, the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, or INTEGRAL, soared into space from Baikonur onboard Proton launcher.