Spektr-RG

Academician Gennady Krasnikov, president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, visited IKI in praise of the 5th anniversary of Spektr-RG launch.

On July 13, 2019, Proton rocket launcher with DM-03 booster blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrome, carrying Russian X-ray observatory Spektr-RG. Today, we name some — but by no means the only — fascinating results of its work in these five years.

The new catalogue includes more than one and a half thousand objects. Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope is one of the two instruments aboard Russian Spektr-RG space observatory, currently working in L2 point.

SN2024ggi, a II-type supernova, was first found on April 11, 2024 by ATLAS project team. It sits in a nearby galaxy NGC3621. Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope onboard Spektr-RG observatory was the first to register its X-ray emission.

After the first few days of observations a new X-ray source turned out to be a pulsar in a binary system with a low-mass companion.

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.

Mikhail Pavlinsky X-ray telescope on-board Russian Spektr-RG observatory has completed the full survey of the Milky Way plane and now is going on with the all-sky survey, which was suspended in the spring of 2022.

Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-Ray telescope and Integral observatory look at Swift J1727.8-1613 X-Ray nova – the brightest object in the summer X-ray sky of 2023.