Abstract:<p>The X-Ray Observatory eROSITA on board the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite has been operational in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2 since summer 2019. Between December 2019 and January 2022 the eROSITA instruments registered at least seven non-nominal events which are likely related to micrometeoroid impacts, leading to permanent local defects in the X-ray CCD sensor. Each of the micrometeoroid events showed different features and effects in the CCD. In order to test… Show more
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