page_title: EROSITA
section_title: Collaboration
hierarchical_section_title: EROSITA / Collaboration
caption_attribution_description: English: German eROSITA consortium meeting in Potsdam, March 4-7, 2019
context_page_description: eROSITA is an X-ray instrument built by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. It is part of the Russian-German Spektr-RG space observatory, which also carries the Russian telescope ART-XC. It was launched by Roscosmos on 13 July 2019 from Baikonur, and deployed in a 6-month halo orbit around the second Lagrange point.
context_section_description: eROSITA was developed at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in collaboration with institutes in Bamberg, Hamburg, Potsdam und Tübingen. The instrument principal investigator is Peter Predehl. The project scientist is Andrea Merloni. The German eROSITA consortium has members from institutes all across Germany, but also from international institutes, and has established collaborations with ground-based telescopes for follow-up observations of the millions of sources that will be detected by eROSITA.
caption: German eROSITA consortium meeting in Potsdam, March 4-7, 2019
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