Santangelo eROSTEP2

Accreting black holes and neutron stars in the Milky Way

01/09/2024 to 31/08/2027

The goal of the project is primarily to take advantage of the eROSITA survey data relative to the four survey scans already completed to explore the faint end of the X-ray luminosity functions of X-ray binaries, both low-mass and high-mass. The enhanced sensitivity with respect to previous surveys will allow sampling a larger fraction of objects in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds, down to luminosities that are typical of the quiescent states of these sources.To detect X-ray binaries in the enormous amount of data available, machine learning techniques will be systematically applied.