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Physics

2017

Galaxies: active

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H0licow Vii: Cosmic Evolution Of The Correlation Between Black Hole Mass And Host Galaxy Luminosity, Xuheng Ding, Tommaso Treu, Sherry H. Suyu, Kenneth C. Wong, Takahiro Morishita, Daesong Park, Dominique Sluse, Matthew W. Auger, Adriano Agnello, Vardha Nicola Bennert, Thomas E. Collett Nov 2017

H0licow Vii: Cosmic Evolution Of The Correlation Between Black Hole Mass And Host Galaxy Luminosity, Xuheng Ding, Tommaso Treu, Sherry H. Suyu, Kenneth C. Wong, Takahiro Morishita, Daesong Park, Dominique Sluse, Matthew W. Auger, Adriano Agnello, Vardha Nicola Bennert, Thomas E. Collett

Physics

Strongly lensed active galactic nuclei (AGN) provide a unique opportunity to make progress in the study of the evolution of the correlation between the mass of supermassive black holes (MBH⁠⁠) and their host galaxy luminosity (Lhost). We demonstrate the power of lensing by analysing two systems for which state-of-the-art lens modelling techniques have been applied to deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging data. We use (i) the reconstructed images to infer the total and bulge luminosity of the host and (ii) published broad-line spectroscopy to estimate MBH using the so-called virial method. We then enlarge …


Extending The Calibration Of C Iv-Based Single-Epoch Black Hole Mass Estimators For Active Galactic Nuclei, Daeseong Park, Aaron J. Barth, Jong-Hak Woo, Matthew A. Malkan, Tommaso Treu, Vardha Nicola Bennert, Roberto J. Assef, Anna Pancoast Apr 2017

Extending The Calibration Of C Iv-Based Single-Epoch Black Hole Mass Estimators For Active Galactic Nuclei, Daeseong Park, Aaron J. Barth, Jong-Hak Woo, Matthew A. Malkan, Tommaso Treu, Vardha Nicola Bennert, Roberto J. Assef, Anna Pancoast

Physics

We provide an updated calibration of C iv broad emission line–based single-epoch (SE) black hole (BH) mass estimators for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using new data for six reverberation-mapped AGNs at redshift with BH masses (bolometric luminosities) in the range ( erg s−1). New rest-frame UV-to-optical spectra covering 1150–5700 Å for the six AGNs were obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Multicomponent spectral decompositions of the HST spectra were used to measure SE emission-line widths for the C iv, Mg ii, and Hβ lines, as well as continuum luminosities in the spectral region around each line. …