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Optical identification and follow-up observations of SRGA J213151.5+491400 -- a new magnetic cataclysmic variable discovered with SRG Observatory
We report results of optical identification and multi-wavelength study of a
new polar-type magnetic cataclysmic variable (MCV), SRGA J213151.5+491400,
discovered by Spectrum Roentgen-Gamma () observatory in the course of the
all-sky survey. We present optical data from telescopes in Turkey (RTT-150 and
T100 at the T\"UBITAK National Observatory), and in Russia (6-m and 1-m at SAO
RAS), together with the X-ray data obtained with and
telescopes aboard and the observatory. We detect SRGA
J213151.5+491400 in a high state in 2020 (17.9 mag) that decreases about 3 mag
into a low state (21 mag) in 2021. We find only one significant period using
optical photometric time series analysis which reveals the white dwarf
spin/orbital period to be 0.059710(1) days (85.982 min). The long slit
spectroscopy in the high state yields a power law continuum increasing towards
the blue with a prominent He II line along with the Balmer line emissions with
no cyclotron humps; consistent with MCV nature. Doppler Tomography confirms the
polar nature revealing ballistic stream accretion along with magnetic stream
during the high state. These characteristics show that the new source is a
polar-type MCV. detections yield an X-ray flux of
(4.0-7.0)10 erg cm s in the high state.
detects a dominating hot plasma component (kT 21 keV in the
high state) declining to (4.0-6.0)10 erg cm s in
2021 (low state). The data obtained in the low state reveal a two-pole
accretor showing a soft X-ray component at (6-7) significance with a
blackbody temperature of 15-18 eV. A soft X-ray component has never been
detected for a polar in the low state before.Comment: 16 pages, 4 Tables and 15 Figures. Accepted for publication in A&A as
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