A detailed analysis of the data from a high sampling rate, multi-month reverberation mapping campaign, undertaken primarily at MDM Observatory with supporting observations from telescopes around the world, reveals that the Hbeta emission region within the broad line regions (BLRs) of several nearby AGNs exhibit a variety of kinematic behaviors. While the primary goal of this campaign was to obtain either new or improved Hbeta reverberation lag measurements for several relatively low luminosity AGNs (presented in a separate work), we were also able to unambiguously reconstruct velocity-resolved reverberation signals from a subset of our targets. Through high cadence spectroscopic monitoring of the optical continuum and broad Hbeta emission line variations observed in the nuclear regions of NGC 3227, NGC 3516, and NGC 5548, we clearly see evidence for outflowing, infalling, and virialized BLR gas motions, respectively.
@article{arxiv.0908.0327,
title = {Diverse Broad Line Region Kinematic Signatures From Reverberation Mapping},
author = {K. D. Denney and B. M. Peterson and R. W. Pogge and A. Adair and D. W. Atlee and K. Au-Yong and M. C. Bentz and J. C. Bird and D. J. Brokofsky and E. Chisholm and M. L. Comins and M. Dietrich and V. T. Doroshenko and J. D. Eastman and Y. S. Efimov and S. Ewald and S. Ferbey and C. M. Gaskell and C. H. Hedrick and K. Jackson and S. A. Klimanov and E. S. Klimek and A. K. Kruse and A. Ladéroute and J. B. Lamb and K. Leighly and T. Minezaki and S. V. Nazarov and C. A. Onken and E. A. Petersen and P. Peterson and S. Poindexter and Y. Sakata and K. J. Schlesinger and S. G. Sergeev and N. Skolski and L. Stieglitz and J. J. Tobin and C. Unterborn and M. Vestergaard and A. E. Watkins and L. C. Watson and Y. Yoshii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.0327},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL