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Dusan Tubín-Arenas

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BLAZ4R and the eROSITA view of z>4 blazars

We present BLAZ4R, the first living catalog of confirmed $z>4$ blazars, with a focus on the contribution of eROSITA, on board of the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) spacecraft. Blazars at $z>4$ are rare but powerful probes of how active supermassive black holes evolve in connection to relativistic jets, in the first 2 billion years of cosmic history. At these redshifts, X-ray observations are essential for constraining blazars jet power and orientation, enabling effective trace of their parent population. The all-sky surveys provided by eROSITA ensure X-ray detection for BLAZ4R sources and, in some cases, allow spectral and temporal studies of their jetted emission. BLAZ4R includes 54 confirmed blazars, characterized through their X-ray properties, radio spectra and morphology, and multiwavelength profiles. We confirm that jetted sources are significantly more numerous relative to non-jetted counterparts at high-$z$, and that blazars (and therefore the overall jetted population) do not exhibit significantly different features compared to the total active galactic nuclei population in the early Universe. Fast accretion processes that involve relativistic jets are clearly required to justify the existence of fully formed jetted AGN at $z>4$. However, the diverse multiwavelength properties characterizing BLAZ4R do not yet allow us to identify the specific signatures of these processes. We will continue updating BLAZ4R to search for such signatures and ultimately understand the early formation of jetted AGN.

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A first systematic characterization of cataclysmic variables in SRG/eROSITA surveys

(abridged) We present an account of known cataclysmic variables (CVs) that were detected as X-ray sources in eROSITA X-ray surveys and have Gaia DR3 counterparts. We address standard CVs with main sequence donors and white dwarfs accreting via Roche-lobe overflow (RLOF) and related objects, the double degenerates (DDs), and the symbiotic stars (SySts). We discern between nonmagnetic (dwarf novae and nova-like objects) and magnetic CVs (polars and intermediate polars (IPs)). In the publically available eROSITA catalog from the recent DR1, typically 65\% of known cataloged and classified CVs are detected. This fraction rises to over 90\% if the stack of all \ero X-ray surveys (called S45 in this paper) is considered and the search volume is restricted to a radius of 500\,pc. We examine the various classes of CVs in various diagnostic diagrams relating X-ray and optical properties (luminosity, absolute magnitude, color, X-ray spectral hardness, and optical variability) and establish their average class properties. We derive spectral properties for the 22 brightest polars and confirm an increase in the ratio of soft to hard X-rays with increasing magnetic field in the accretion region. We report three new soft IPs and present a spectral analysis of all soft IPs. Their blackbody temperatures agree well with published values. The DDs represent the bluest and faintest subcategory but reach the same identification fraction as the standard CVs. The SySts are the most distant systems; only 20 (13\%) were detected as X-ray sources in S45, and 7 of those are first-time detections. We investigate their mean properties using an upper limit on the flux of the nondetected CVs. Their X-ray nondetection is indeed a distance effect.

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