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Broad-line region size and black hole mass in high-z AGN

Astrophysics 2008-08-28 v2

Abstract

In this contribution we briefly review the reverberation mapping technique and its results for low and intermidiate luminosity AGNs. Then we present a monitoring campaign of high-luminosity high-redshift quasars which will extend these results by two orders of magnitude, probing the broad-line region size and black hole (BH) mass of luminous AGN at redshift ~2-3.

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@article{arxiv.0805.4664,
  title  = {Broad-line region size and black hole mass in high-z AGN},
  author = {Ismael Botti and Paulina Lira and Hagai Netzer and Shai Kaspi and Jose Maza and Dan Maoz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.4664},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the "Compact Objects and their Emission" La Plata International School in Astronomy and Geophysics, held 10-14 March 2008, in La Plata, Argentina (eds: I. Andruchow, G. E. Romero)