Bright, Energetic, and Puzzling Russian Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC X-ray telescope onboard Spektr-RG observatory (Roscosmos) and Russian KONUS instrument onboard WIND spacecraft (NASA), residing in two opposite Lagrange points L1 and L2, have provided a detailed study of GRB 221009A — the brightest of all gamma-ray bursts previously registered by Konus and most likely the brightest one in the whole history of mankind.
Academician Rashid Sunyaev is 80! On 1 March 2023 Academician Rashid A. Sunyaev, one of the world renowned astrophysicists, celebrates its 80th birthday. He is famous for many results, which have entered modern textbooks for theoretical astrophysics and cosmology all over the world.
IKI Young Scientists Awarded On the eve of the day of Russian science, Russian Academy of Sciences awarded the winners of the 2021 competition for RAS awards for young scientists and students. Among them are IKI astrophysicicts Andrei Semena, Ilya Mereminsky, Igor Zaznobin.
Coma Cluster in X-Rays and Radio 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.
High-Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow — 2022 On 19–22 December 2022 IKI hosts the annual all-Russian conference "High-Energy Astrophysics Today and Tomorrow — 2022 (HEA–2022)".
Twenty years of INTEGRAL Twenty years ago on October 17, 202, the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory, or INTEGRAL, soared into space from Baikonur onboard Proton launcher.
A GRB-to-be did not appear in X-rays Sometimes the fact that one did not see something makes a difference. A recent paper published by Spektr-RG science team describes a gamma-ray burst (GRB), which Spektr-RG instruments had not observed, however strange it may seem,..
X-ray transients on the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC map Russian Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the 2021 competition for RAS awards for young scientists and students. Among them are IKI astrophysicicts Andrei Semena, Ilya Mereminsky, Igor Zaznobin.