Masses of Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present a progress report on a project whose goal is to improve both the precision and accuracy of everberation-based black-hole masses. Reverberation masses appear to be accurate to a factor of about three, and the black-hole mass/bulge velocity dispersion relationship appears to be the same in active and quiescent galaxies.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0210639,
title = {Masses of Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei},
author = {Bradley M. Peterson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210639},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure. To be published in "Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy", ed. S. Collin, F. Combes, and I. Shlosman