Marat Gilfanov

State awards are given to IKI scientists — members of the Russian Academy of Sciences in recognition of their outstanding contribution to national science, seminal research actvity, and regarding the 300-year anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences!

Data from 2-year sky survey by SRG/eROSITA were used to study X-ray variability of thousands of SDSS quasars. X-ray variability appeared to be linked with some physical parameters of supermassive black holes, such as theirs masses and accretion rates.

Our best wishes to Academician Marat Gilfanov, chief researcher of the High-Energy Astrophysics Department, for his 60th birthday!

Among them is Professor Acad. Marat Gilfanov, chief researcher at High-Energy Astrophysics Department of IKI.

New Academy members were elected at the General Assembly of the RAS. The results were made public on June, 2, during the Assembly.

At first AT2020mrf seemed to be an ordinary optical transient, but thanks to SRG/eROSITA discovery of a new X-ray source in the same place it became clear that the astrophysicists have encountered the most peculiar object.