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The eROSITA ground operations comprise the areas of mission planning, telescope operation, and data reception, the operation of the data processing pipeline, and the creation of tools for data access and interactive data analysis. All these activities take place at and are the responsibility of MPE.
Since its launch, eROSITA spent almost 1,000 days in nominal operations. During this time, the eROSITA operations team had a daily basis interaction in real-time with Mission Control in Moscow to carry out routine, maintenance, and contingency operations, as well as the downlink of the observed data.
The eROSITA data processing pipeline consists of modules for data ingestion, event calibration, exposure calculation, source detection, and the creation of high-level source-specific data products. It is operated at MPE, and the data products are released to the collaboration members and the public. A subset of the software tasks comprising the data analysis pipeline also functions as interactive data analysis tools for scientists who are interested in eROSITA data. These can be grouped into tasks for X-ray event calibration, selection and binning, exposure, background and sensitivity map creation, and source detection.
In this talk, I will show how the daily operations of eROSITA were carried out during nominal operations. A tour of the eROSITA control room will be possible. Furthermore, I will guide you through the process of how the observed X-ray photons are transformed into FITS files that you can analyze and use for your research.
