New Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the ART-XС and eROSITA Telescopes during the First Five SRG All-Sky X-ray Surveys

• Published in: Astronomy letters Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 25 - 48
• Main Authors: Uskov, G. S., Sazonov, S. Yu, Zaznobin, I. A., Burenin, R. A., Gilfanov, M. R., Medvedev, P. S., Sunyaev, R. A., Krivonos, R. A., Filippova, E. V., Khorunzhev, G. A., Eselevich, M. V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow Pleiades Publishing 01.02.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Active galactic nuclei; Astronomy; Astrophysics and Astroparticles; Confidence intervals; Energy bands; Galaxies; Observations and Techniques; Observatories; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Polls & surveys; Seyfert galaxies; Sky surveys (astronomy); Telescopes; X ray sources; X ray spectra; X-ray astronomy; X-rays; Zidovudine; active galactic nuclei; optical observations; redshifts; X-ray observations; sky surveys
• ISSN: 1063-7737; 1562-6873
• DOI: 10.1134/S1063773723020044

We present the results of our identification of 14 X-ray sources detected in the eastern Galactic sky ( ) in the 4–12 keV energy band on the combined map of the first five all-sky surveys (from December 2019 to March 2022) with the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC telescope onboard the SRG observatory. All 14 sources are reliably detected by the SRG/eROSITA telescope in the 0.2–8 keV energy band. Six of them have been detected in X-rays for the first time, while the remaining ones have already been known previously as X-ray sources, but their nature has remained unknown. We have taken optical spectra for 12 sources with the 1.6-m AZT-33IK telescope at the Sayan Observatory (the Institute of Solar–Terrestrial Physics, the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences). For two more objects we have analyzed the archival spectra taken during the 6dF survey. All objects have turned out to be Seyfert galaxies (one NLSy1, three Sy1, four Sy1.9, and six Sy2) at redshifts –0.238. Based on data from the eROSITA and ART-XC telescopes onboard the SRG observatory, we have obtained X-ray spectra for all objects in the energy range 0.2–12 keV. In four of them the intrinsic absorption exceeds cm at a 90 confidence level, with one of them being probably heavily obscured ( cm with 90 confidence). This paper continues our series of publications on the identification of hard X-ray sources detected during the all-sky survey with the SRG orbital X-ray observatory.