Spain will take part in the Einstein Probe, which is now ready to monitor the sky with X-rays and contribute to the study of space after obtaining the first images of celestial objects.
In this international mission the work Supreme Council for Scientific Research (CSIC)depends on the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
There’s an “with” potential” to expand understanding of extreme space events and will provide “valuable” data to solve “key” problems
about the structure and evolution of the Universe.
In addition, the European Space Agency (ESA) will have access to 10% of generated datawhich will allow the European scientific community to play an important role in the analysis of his discoveries.
“Eyes of the Lobster”
Featuring optical technology inspired by lobster eyes, the probe can observe vast areas of the sky in three orbits around the Earthwhich will allow it to detect and control X-ray emissions from various astronomical objects.
Probe It was released on January 9th. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in collaboration with ESA, the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) of Germany and the National Center for Space Research of France.
Thus, in the months following takeoff, the mission’s operations team conducted tests to confirm probe functionality and calibration of scientific instruments. At this stage, the Einstein probe collected scientific data from various X-ray sources.
The first images taken show “Extraordinary” capabilities of two scientific instruments of the Einstein Probe probe.as explained by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
“The Einstein probe will not only ideal “hunter” for new sources of transition X-ray radiation but given the unprecedentedly large field of view, it will also allow systematic characterization of properties
X-ray emission from sources located in areas of the sky has never been observed before,” said Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) and Institute of Space Research of Catalonia (IEEC) researcher Francesco Coti Gelati.