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2023

Reverberation mapping

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The Seoul National University Agn Monitoring Project. Iv. Hα Reverberation Mapping Of Six Agns And The Hα Size–Luminosity Relation, Hojin Cho, Jong-Hak Woo, Shu Wang, Donghoon Son, Jaejin Shin, Suvendu Rakshit, Aaron J. Barth, Vardha N. Bennert, Elena Gallo, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Tommaso Treu, Hyun-Ji Bae, Wanjin Cho, Adi Foord, Jaehyuk Geum, Yashashree Jadhav, Yiseul Jeon, Kyle M. Kabasares, Daeun Kang, Wonseok Kang, Changseok Kim, Donghwa Kim, Minjin Kim, Taewoo Kim, Huynh Anh N. Lee, Matthew A. Malkan, Amit Kumar Mandal, Daeseong Park, Hyun-Il Sung, Vivian U, Peter R. Williams Aug 2023

The Seoul National University Agn Monitoring Project. Iv. Hα Reverberation Mapping Of Six Agns And The Hα Size–Luminosity Relation, Hojin Cho, Jong-Hak Woo, Shu Wang, Donghoon Son, Jaejin Shin, Suvendu Rakshit, Aaron J. Barth, Vardha N. Bennert, Elena Gallo, Edmund Hodges-Kluck, Tommaso Treu, Hyun-Ji Bae, Wanjin Cho, Adi Foord, Jaehyuk Geum, Yashashree Jadhav, Yiseul Jeon, Kyle M. Kabasares, Daeun Kang, Wonseok Kang, Changseok Kim, Donghwa Kim, Minjin Kim, Taewoo Kim, Huynh Anh N. Lee, Matthew A. Malkan, Amit Kumar Mandal, Daeseong Park, Hyun-Il Sung, Vivian U, Peter R. Williams

Physics

The broad-line region (BLR) size–luminosity relation has paramount importance for estimating the mass of black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Traditionally, the size of the Hβ BLR is often estimated from the optical continuum luminosity at 5100 Å, while the size of the Hα BLR and its correlation with the luminosity is much less constrained. As a part of the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project, which provides 6 yr photometric and spectroscopic monitoring data, we present our measurements of the Hα lags of high-luminosity AGNs. Combined with the measurements for 42 AGNs from the literature, …


What Does The Geometry Of The Hβblr Depend On?, Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu, Brendon J. Brewer, Aaron J. Barth, Vivian U, Vardha N. Bennert, Hengxiao Guo, Misty C. Bentz, Gabriela Canalizo, Alexei V. Filippenko, Elinor Gates, Michael D. Joner, Matthew A. Malkan, Jong-Hak Woo, Bela Abolfathi, Thomas Bohn, K. Azalee Bostroem, Goni Halevi, Carol E. Hood, J. Chuck Horst, Maxime De Kouchkovsky, Benjamin Kuhn, Douglas C. Leonard, Raúl Michel, Melanie Kae B. Olaes, Daeseong Park, Jordan N. Runco, Remington O. Sexton, Isaac Shivvers, Chance L. Spencer, Benjamin E. Stahl, Samantha Stegman, Jonelle L. Walsh, Weikang Zheng May 2023

What Does The Geometry Of The Hβblr Depend On?, Lizvette Villafaña, Peter R. Williams, Tommaso Treu, Brendon J. Brewer, Aaron J. Barth, Vivian U, Vardha N. Bennert, Hengxiao Guo, Misty C. Bentz, Gabriela Canalizo, Alexei V. Filippenko, Elinor Gates, Michael D. Joner, Matthew A. Malkan, Jong-Hak Woo, Bela Abolfathi, Thomas Bohn, K. Azalee Bostroem, Goni Halevi, Carol E. Hood, J. Chuck Horst, Maxime De Kouchkovsky, Benjamin Kuhn, Douglas C. Leonard, Raúl Michel, Melanie Kae B. Olaes, Daeseong Park, Jordan N. Runco, Remington O. Sexton, Isaac Shivvers, Chance L. Spencer, Benjamin E. Stahl, Samantha Stegman, Jonelle L. Walsh, Weikang Zheng

Physics

We combine our dynamical modeling black-hole mass measurements from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016 sample with measured cross-correlation time lags and line widths to recover individual scale factors, f, used in traditional reverberation-mapping analyses. We extend our sample by including prior results from Code for AGN Reverberation and Modeling of Emission Lines (CARAMEL) studies that have utilized our methods. Aiming to improve the precision of black-hole mass estimates, as well as uncover any regularities in the behavior of the broad-line region (BLR), we search for correlations between f and other AGN/BLR parameters. We find (i) evidence for a …