We present the first sample of tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered during the SRG all-sky survey. These 13 events were selected among X-ray transients detected in the 0 < l < 180○ hemisphere by eROSITA during its second sky survey (10 June–14 December 2020) and confirmed by optical follow-up observations. The most distant event occurred at z = 0.581. One TDE continued to brighten at least 6 months. The X-ray spectra are consistent with nearly critical accretion on to black holes of a few × 103 to 108 M⊙, although supercritical accretion is possibly taking place. In two TDEs, a spectral hardening is observed 6 months after the discovery. Four TDEs showed an optical brightening apart from the X-ray outburst. The other 9 TDEs demonstrate no optical activity. All 13 TDEs are optically faint, with Lg/LX < 0.3 (Lg and LX being the g-band and 0.2–6 keV luminosity, respectively). We have constructed a TDE X-ray luminosity function, which can be fit by a power law with a slope of −0.6 ± 0.2, similar to the trend observed for optically selected TDEs. The total rate is estimated at (1.1 ± 0.5) × 10−5 TDEs per galaxy per year, an order of magnitude lower than inferred from optical studies. This suggests that X-ray bright events constitute a minority of TDEs, consistent with models predicting that X-rays can only be observed from directions close to the axis of a thick accretion disk formed from the stellar debris. Our TDE detection threshold can be lowered by a factor of ∼2, which should allow a detection of ∼700 TDEs by the end of the SRG survey.
A huge optical luminosity of the supercritical accretion disc and powerful stellar wind in the high-mass X-ray binary SS433 make it difficult to reliably estimate the mass ratio of the binary components from spectroscopic observations. We analyze different indirect methods of the mass ratio estimate. We show that with an account of the possible Roche lobe overflow by the optical star, the analysis of X-ray eclipses in the standard and hard X-ray bands suggests the estimate q = M x /M v 0.3. We argue that the double-peak hydrogen Brackett lines in SS433 should form not in the accretion disc but in a circumbinary envelope, suggesting a total mass of M v + M x 40M . The observed long-term stability of the orbital period in SS433 | P b /P b | ≤ 1.793 × 10 −14 s −1 over ∼ 28 year period is used to place an independent constraint of q 0.6 in SS433, confirming its being a Galactic microquasar hosting a superaccreting black hole.
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