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Szkody, P., Loohuis, C. O., Koplitz, B., van Roestel, J., Dicenzo, B., Ho, A. Y. Q., . . . Walters, R. (2021). Cataclysmic Variables in the Second Year of the Zwicky Transient Facility. Astronomical Journal, 162(3), Article ID 94.
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2021 (English)In: Astronomical Journal, ISSN 0004-6256, E-ISSN 1538-3881, Vol. 162, no 3, article id 94Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Using a filter in the GROWTH Marshal based on color and the amplitude and timescale of variability, we have identified 372 objects as known or candidate cataclysmic variables (CVs) during the second year of the operation of the Zwicky Transient Facility. From the available difference imaging data, we found that 93 are previously confirmed CVs and 279 are strong candidates. Spectra of four of the candidates confirm them as CVs by the presence of Balmer emission lines, while one of the four has prominent He ii lines indicative of containing a magnetic white dwarf. Gaia EDR3 parallaxes are available for 154 of these systems, resulting in distances from 108–2096 pc and absolute magnitudes in the range of 7.5–15.0, with the largest number of candidates between 10.5 and 12.5. The total numbers are 21% higher than from the previous year of the survey with a greater number of distances available but a smaller percentage of systems close to the Galactic plane. Comparison of these findings with a machine-learning method of searching all the light curves reveals large differences in each data set related to the parameters involved in the search process.

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Physical Sciences
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-198310 (URN)10.3847/1538-3881/ac0efb (DOI)000683560700001 ()
Available from: 2021-11-08 Created: 2021-11-08 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
Yao, Y., Kulkarni, S. R., Burdge, K. B., Caiazzo, I., De, K., Dong, D., . . . Soumagnac, M. T. (2021). Multi-wavelength Observations of AT2019wey: a New Candidate Black Hole Low-mass X-ray Binary. Astrophysical Journal, 920(2), Article ID 120.
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2021 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 920, no 2, article id 120Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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AT2019wey (SRGA J043520.9+552226, SRGE J043523.3+552234) is a transient first reported by the ATLAS optical survey in 2019 December. It rose to prominence upon detection, three months later, by the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) mission in its first all-sky survey. X-ray observations reported in Yao et al. suggest that AT2019wey is a Galactic low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) with a black hole (BH) or neutron star (NS) accretor. Here we present ultraviolet, optical, near-infrared, and radio observations of this object. We show that the companion is a short-period (P ≲ 16 hr) low-mass (<1 M) star. We consider AT2019wey to be a candidate BH system since its locations on the Lradio–LX and Lopt–LX diagrams are closer to BH binaries than NS binaries. We demonstrate that from 2020 June to August, despite the more than 10 times brightening at radio and X-ray wavelengths, the optical luminosity of AT2019wey only increased by 1.3–1.4 times. We interpret the UV/optical emission before the brightening as thermal emission from a truncated disk in a hot accretion flow and the UV/optical emission after the brightening as reprocessing of the X-ray emission in the outer accretion disk. AT2019wey demonstrates that combining current wide-field optical surveys and SRG provides a way to discover the emerging population of short-period BH LMXB systems with faint X-ray outbursts.

Keywords
Low-mass x-ray binary stars, Accretion, Astrophysical black holes, Sky surveys
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Physical Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-198548 (URN)10.3847/1538-4357/ac15f9 (DOI)000709980100001 ()
Available from: 2021-11-12 Created: 2021-11-12 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved
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