The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS)

Context. The eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Spectrum-Poentgen-Gamma (SPG) observatory combines a large field of view and a large collecting area in the energy range between ~0.2 and ~8.0 keV. This gives the telescope the capability to perform uniform scanning observations of large sky areas. Aims. SRG/eROSITA performed scanning observations of the ~140 square degree eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey field (the eFEDS field) as part of its performance verification phase ahead of the planned four year of all-sky scanning operations. The observing time of eFEDS was chosen to slightly exceed the depth expected in an equatorial field after the completion of the all - sky survey. While verifying the…

• EK
  Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• CN
  Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
• M
  Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
• UH
  Universität Hamburg
• RF
  Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• LF
  Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
• L
  Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
• RA
  Russian Academy of Sciences