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The first distant X-ray quasars (z ∼ 4) among the sources discovered by the eROSITA telescope of the SRG orbital observatory during a deep Lockman Hole survey

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Sunyaev,  R. A.
High Energy Astrophysics, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Gilfanov,  M. R.
High Energy Astrophysics, MPI for Astrophysics, Max Planck Society;

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Khorunzhev, G. A., Meshcheryakov, A. V., Burenin, R. A., Lyapin, A. R., Medvedev, P. S., Sazonov, S. Y., et al. (2020). The first distant X-ray quasars (z ∼ 4) among the sources discovered by the eROSITA telescope of the SRG orbital observatory during a deep Lockman Hole survey. Astronomy Letters - a Journal of Astronomy and Space Astrophysics, 46(3), 149-155. doi:10.1134/S1063773720030032.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-51B5-1
Abstract
During a deep extragalactic Lockman Hole sky survey with an area of 18.5 sq. deg, which was conducted when the SRG observatory was flying to the Lagrange point L2, the eROSITA telescope detected ∼7000 X-ray sources. These objects were then provisionally identified and classified using the publicly accessible data of optical and infrared sky surveys by the SRGz machine learning system developed for this purpose at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. As a result, a number of new candidates for distant quasars (z∼4) have been selected. The spectroscopic observations of the first two candidates from this list carried out with the 1.6-m AZT-33IK telescope of the Sayan Solar Observatory have confirmed that these objects are actually distant quasars at redshifts 3.878 and 4.116 and are characterized by a high X-ray luminosity ∼1045 erg s−1 (2–10 keV). The results obtained allow one to count on the detection of a large number of distant quasars during a four-year all-sky survey of the SRG observatory begun in December 2019.