A rare event has been identified in a brief detection of X-rays, and researchers have used the finding to verify a long-standing theory about a class of exploding star go.nature.com/3wnrF30

A&A highlights our latest results on QPEs: these eruptions can be amazingly complex! #StayTuned

J Wolf presents the eROSITA z~6 quasars, which already rule out some extreme triggering models. #EAS2022

Pleased to announce the official submission of a transient and possible supernova in JWST NIRCam data! The first such object! Many thanks gbrammer and his team for his help and also to the TSST team at STScI for their rapid analysis. wis-tns.org/astronotes/ast…

Julien Wolf commencing his excellent invited talk on the search, and discovery, of high-z QSOs with eROSITA at #COSPAR2022

Dedicated eROSITA science splinter sessions at AG2022 in September- registration deadline 31st August! tinyurl.com/3kwrc2pv

A special splinter session on eROSITA science has been organised at the German Astronomical Society on the 13th and 14th of September in Bremen. Deadline for abstract submission is on the 15th of August. Looking forward to see many of you there! ag2022.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_splinter.…

Great new paper on the arXiv (2208.12452) today by Zhu Liu (Zhu Liu ) at MPE, presenting the extreme, *repeating* X-ray variability of an eROSITA discovered nuclear transient- check it out!

I am thrilled to announce that my 1st-student at Tohoku University 東北大学 学際科学フロンティア研究所 has posted his 1st 1st-author paper! It is a report paper on ~60 AGNs who have experienced luminosity change at least by a factor of >10 in the last 10^3-4 yr. arxiv.org/abs/2208.12286

Totally packed eRosita splinter at #ag2022bremen 😊 and still people incoming. Today is the Galactic science, tomorrow Extragalactic science.

ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos!

Just seen this cool follow-up paper by Y. Wang+ on the double-peaked TDE (?) candidate AT 2019avd: arxiv.org/abs/2212.08453 - looking forward to reading properly in 2023

MPE PR: after initially appearing as a 'standard' X-ray bright TDE candidate in September 2020, J0456 showed a wild, extreme evolution of its X-ray lightcurve in the extensive follow-up campaign! mpe.mpg.de/7919825/news20…

Highlight: Deciphering the extreme X-ray variability of the nuclear transient eRASSt J045650.3-203750. A likely repeating partial tidal disruption event by Z. Liu, A. Malyali, M. Krumpe, D. Homan, et al. 2023, A&A, 669, A75 aanda.org/2023-highlight…

It's paper day!! We, together with an amazing group of colleagues, discovered a new lensed quasar using eROSITA (🛰️), ESA Gaia (🛰️), and ESO's NTT/EFOSC2 (🔭🏜️)! arxiv.org/abs/2304.02499

A nature paper presents observations of what appears to be a planet ‘swallowed up’ by its host star. The findings may help efforts to determine the fate of planets as stars evolve. go.nature.com/42lFL3u

And that's a wrap for the 20th (!) eROSITA Consortium meeting at @MPE_Garching. A week of amazing new science results and lively discussions. Such a privilege to work for this diverse group of talented young (and not-so-young-anymore) astronomers!

AT 2020vdq- optical rebrightening of a previously reported TDE candidate (Yao+23) ~2.5 years on from the initial outburst in Oct 2020, and part of a VLASS-selected TDE sample? Strange... wis-tns.org/astronotes/ast…

Some exciting news - it’s new paper day! arxiv.org/abs/2306.00961 This paper describes all the work I’ve been doing in my PhD @MPE_Garching studying supermassive black holes with eROSITA We used X-ray + optical data from SDSS/SDSS-V/Black Hole Mapper to learn more! Thread here:

Attn: prospective PhD students!! The wonderful Gemma Anderson and myself are advertising for domestic PhD student to come work with us on gamma ray bursts! See - astronomy.curtin.edu.au/study-with-cir… for details on how to apply and I am more than happy to answer any questions you may have!