Velocity-resolved Reverberation Mapping of Five Bright Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Autor: S. M. McGraw, G. A. Borman, E. Kilerci-Eser, D. N. Okhmat, Jessie C. Runnoe, Jan Skowron, E. Tamajo, D. A. Starkey, G. V. Simonian, Michael S. Brotherton, Radosław Poleski, J. van Saders, Cassandra Lochhaas, J. S. Brown, Christopher A. Onken, Sarah Eftekharzadeh, M. C. Bottorff, R. Stoll, E. Portaluri, A. L. King, Alessandro Siviero, Stefano Valenti, Christopher S. Kochanek, Joseph Moody, C. D. Laney, Miao Li, Encarni Romero-Colmenero, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Kevin V. Croxall, Wei Zhu, G. De Rosa, E. R. Manne-Nicholas, J. L. Prieto, N. G. Pulatova, Misty C. Bentz, Carolin Villforth, Marianne Vestergaard, C. Araya Salvo, J. E. Brown, R. Musso, M. L. Nguyen, Joseph M. Antognini, Christian Clanton, Hartmut Winkler, Keith Horne, Scott M. Adams, Benjamin J. Shappee, Michael D. Joner, K. Mogren, Eve Armstrong, F. MacInnis, Catherine J. Grier, M. Spencer, S. L. Fiorenza, Ying Zu, P. Ochner, Rachael M. Roettenbacher, Stefano Ciroi, Thomas G. Beatty, Bradley M. Peterson, Stacy Y. Kim, Daniel J. Stevens, Steven Villanueva, Aaron J. Barth, Ana M. Mosquera, D. Mudd, A. Pancoast, E. Dalla Bontà, Todd Boroson, J. Zastrow, Garrett Somers, D. M. Skowron, Kelly D. Denney, S. Rafter, J. S. Schimoia, N. Sherf, Mike Eracleous, B. Ou-Yang, J. Kellar, T. Hutchison, Liuyi Pei, Calen B. Henderson, Thomas W.-S. Holoien, A. Frassati, S. G. Sergeev, Jamie Tayar, Valentina Cracco, Zhiyuan Ma, C. Montouri, Carl T. Coker, M. Mason, Jaehan Bae, Michael Fausnaugh, Matthew T. Penny, Shai Kaspi, Richard W. Pogge, A. Bhattacharjee, G. La Mura, Y. Weiss, Keith Hawkins, S. V. Nazarov, Steven M. Crawford
Přispěvatelé: ITA, USA, GBR, FRA, DEU, ESP, Science & Technology Facilities Council, University of St Andrews. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Popis: We present the first results from a reverberation-mapping campaign undertaken during the first half of 2012, with additional data on one AGN (NGC 3227) from a 2014 campaign. Our main goals are (1) to determine the black hole masses from continuum-Hbeta reverberation signatures, and (2) to look for velocity-dependent time delays that might be indicators of the gross kinematics of the broad-line region. We successfully measure Hbeta time delays and black hole masses for five AGNs, four of which have previous reverberation mass measurements. The values measured here are in agreement with earlier estimates, though there is some intrinsic scatter beyond the formal measurement errors. We observe velocity dependent Hbeta lags in each case, and find that the patterns have changed in the intervening five years for three AGNs that were also observed in 2007.
Accepted for publication on ApJ; 32 pages, 16 figures, 10 tables
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