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SRGe J214919.3+673634—a Candidate for AM Her Variables Discovered by the eROSITA Telescope onboard the Spectrum–Roentgen–Gamma Orbital Observatory

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We present the results of the optical identification, classification, and analysis of our photometric and spectroscopic observations of the X-ray transient SRGe J214919.3+673634 discovered by the eROSITA telescope onboard the Spectrum–Roentgen–Gamma orbital observatory in the summer of 2021 during the fourth sky survey. The photometric observations of the optical counterpart of SRGe J214919.3+673634 performed at the 6-m BTA telescope of SAO RAS, the 1.5-m Russian–Turkish telescope RTT-150, and the 2.5-m telescope of CMO SAI MSU as well the archival data from the 48-inch ZTF telescope have shown that the source is a cataclysmic variable with an orbital period \(P=85\pm 0.4\) min and exhibits a long-term photometric variability from \(23.5^{m}\) (low state) to \(20^{m}\) (high state). We show that the light curves in the high state are consistent with the model of an accreting magnetized white dwarf and suggest that SRGe J214919.3+673634 belongs to the AM Her variables. The spectra of the optical counterpart taken in the low state at BTA are consistent with the spectral energy distribution of a white dwarf with a temperature \({\sim}24\,000\) K.

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  1. More detailed information about the detector is accessible at https://obs.sai.msu.ru/cmo/sai25/wfi/.

  2. The astronomical data reduction and analysis package was developed by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories and is accessible at https://iraf-community.github.io/.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to TÜBITAK, the Space Research Institute, the Kazan Federal University, and the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan for their partial support in using RTT-150 (the 1.5-m Russian–Turkish telescope in Antalya). The observations at the SAO RAS telescopes are supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The instrumentation is upgraded within the ‘‘Science and Universities’’ National Project.

Part of our study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-32-60048). The photometric observations at RTT-150 and the 2.5-m CMO SAI MSU telescope and their primary reduction were supported by RSF no 21-12-00210 (I.F. Bikmaev, E.N. Irtuganov, E.A. Nikolaeva, and S.G. Zheltoukhov). The work of N.A. Sakhibullin, R.I. Gumerov, and I.M. Khamitov was financed by subsidy no. 671-2020-0052 of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation allocated to the Kazan Federal University for the State assignment in the sphere of scientific activities.

This study is based on observations with the eROSITA telescope onboard the SRG observatory. The SRG observatory was built by Roskosmos in the interests of the Russian Academy of Sciences represented by the Space Research Institute (IKI) within the framework of the Russian Federal Space Program, with the participation of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR). The SRG/eROSITA X-ray telescope was built by a consortium of German institutes led by MPE, and supported by DLR. The SRG spacecraft was designed, built, launched and is operated by the Lavochkin Association and its subcontractors. The science data are downlinked via the Deep Space Network Antennae in Bear Lakes, Ussurijsk, and Baykonur, funded by Roskosmos. The eROSITA data used in this paper were processed with the eSASS software developed by the German eROSITA consortium and the proprietary data reduction and analysis software developed by the Russian eROSITA Consortium.

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  1. Kazan Federal University, 420000, Kazan, Russia

    I. F. Bikmaev, A. I. Kolbin, I. M. Khamitov, E. N. Irtuganov, E. A. Nikolaeva, N. A. Sakhibullin & R. I. Gumerov

  2. Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia

    I. F. Bikmaev, E. N. Irtuganov, E. A. Nikolaeva, N. A. Sakhibullin & R. I. Gumerov

  3. Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, 119234, Moscow, Russia

    I. F. Bikmaev, E. N. Irtuganov, E. A. Nikolaeva & S. G. Zheltoukhov

  4. Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences (SAO RAS), 369167, Nizhnii Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic, Russia

    A. I. Kolbin, V. V. Shimansky, A. V. Moiseev, E. A. Malygin & E. S. Shablovinskaya

  5. TÜBITAK National Observatory, Antalya, Turkey

    I. M. Khamitov

  6. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997, Moscow, Russia

    R. A. Burenin, M. R. Gilfanov, I. A. Zaznobin, R. A. Krivonos, P. S. Medvedev, A. V. Meshcheryakov, S. Yu. Sazonov, R. A. Sunyaev, G. A. Khorunzhev & A. V. Moiseev

  7. Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, Postfach 1317, D-85741, Garching, Germany

    M. R. Gilfanov & R. A. Sunyaev

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Bikmaev, I.F., Kolbin, A.I., Shimansky, V.V. et al. SRGe J214919.3+673634—a Candidate for AM Her Variables Discovered by the eROSITA Telescope onboard the Spectrum–Roentgen–Gamma Orbital Observatory. Astron. Lett. 48, 530–541 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773722090018

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