Observations of Tidal disruption events with SRG/eROSITA
Abstract
The on-going all-sky X-ray survey conducted by the eROSITA telescope on board the SRG observatory has proved to be very effective at discovering tidal disruption events (TDEs). Candidate TDEs are unveiled by comparing consecutive sky maps obtained by eROSITA every 6 months and then followed up with optical observations to ascertain their nature. We have already discovered more than 50 new TDEs and continue to find such events approximately once per week on the half of the sky where the eROSITA data rights belong to the Russian Consortium. I will provide an overview of these first results, focusing on the statistical and multiwavelength properties of TDEs.
- Publication:
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44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July
- Pub Date:
- July 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022cosp...44.1963S