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Kostas Migkas

@kmigkas.bsky.social
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Oort fellow at Leiden Observatory. Working on X-ray galaxy clusters and observational cosmology. Dad and husband.

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Kostas Migkas @kmigkas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Galaxy clusters and cosmology are coming together in Leiden and our upcoming Lorentz Workshop! Contact us if wishing to join! Cosmology at the Crossroads: Galaxy Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys 📅 8–12 Dec 2025 👉 www.lorentzcenter.nl/cosmology-at... #Astrophysics #Cosmology #GalaxyClusters
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Another clue about the whereabouts of the missing matter in the Universe has just emerged from amid the largest local cosmic structure. X-ray observations have revealed a massive filament of hot gas in the enormous, 8,000-galaxy strong Shapley Supercluster. www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
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Detection of pure warm-hot intergalactic medium emission from a 7.2 Mpc long filament in the Shapley supercluster using X-ray spectroscopy | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)Mendeley
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Kostas Migkas @kmigkas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The excellent press release by ESA regarding our latest work and the first unambiguous detection of the missing baryons and warm-hot intergalactic medium in a single filament!
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NOVA press release: Astronomers analyse huge, hot filament of missing normal matter www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/as... Article by Migkas et al. www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Astronomers analyse huge, hot filament of missing normal matter
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Featured image: X-ray emitting filament connecting galaxy cluster (Migkas, K., et al., 2025, A&A, 698, A270) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Kostas Migkas @kmigkas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
📢Paper and press releases day! We report the first-ever unambiguous detection of WHIM/missing baryons in a single cosmic filament using @ESA_XMM and @JAXA_en Suzaku data! It's the first time observations agree with LCDM simulations for the nature of WHIM www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...
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Detection of pure warm-hot intergalactic medium emission from a 7.2 Mpc long filament in the Shapley supercluster using X-ray spectroscopy | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)Mendeley
Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics
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Kostas Migkas @kmigkas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Delighted to share that I got yet another research grant from @unileiden.bsky.social and the Fonds Rijke-Hamaker fund! 🥳 This grant will support my analysis of new X-ray data of galaxy clusters that will eventually help us further refine our understanding of the uniformity of cosmic expansion!
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Kostas Migkas @kmigkas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚀 Exciting news! Our proposal for the Lorentz Workshop, focusing on Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters is approved for 8–12 Dec 2025 🎉 @lorentzcenter.bsky.social , @unileiden.bsky.social We'll bring together cluster enthusiasts and dive into the latest in cluster cosmology! tinyurl.com/lorentzclust...
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Center for Scientific Workshops in All Disciplines - Cosmology at the Crossroads: Galaxy Clusters in the Era of Large Surveys
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Kostas Migkas @kmigkas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
(My first post) I'm thrilled to receive an NWO Open Competition grant to test the uniformity of cosmic expansion at local and distant cosmic scales, using eROSITA and @esa.int XMM-Newton data of X-ray galaxy clusters! This means I get to stay longer at Leiden Observatory 🥳 tinyurl.com/NWOgrant
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Three NWO Open Competition grants for Leiden scientists
Smart drug carriers, uneven cosmic expansion, and solar energy storage in molecules. These are the topics of three newly awarded NWO-XS grants to researchers at the Faculty of Science.
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