ART-XC

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.

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.

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.

On July 13, 2023 Spektr-RG space observatory marks its fourth year since the launch. More that 1.1 terabytes of telemetry data have been downstreamed to the Earth, which later turned into tens of terabytes of scientific data. More than 70 papers have been already published, which investigate hundreds and thousands of X-ray sources.