Reverberation Mapping Results for Five Seyfert 1 Galaxies
Abstract
We present the results from a detailed analysis of photometric and spectrophotometric data on five Seyfert 1 galaxies observed as a part of a recent reverberation mapping program. The data were collected at several observatories over a 140-day span beginning in 2010 August and ending in 2011 January. We obtained high sampling-rate light curves for Mrk 335, Mrk 1501, 3C120, Mrk 6, and PG2130+099, from which we have measured the time lag between variations in the 5100 Angstrom continuum and the H-beta broad emission line. We then used these measurements to calculate the mass of the supermassive black hole at the center of each of these galaxies. Our new measurements substantially improve previous measurements of MBH and the size of the broad line-emitting region for four sources and add a measurement for one new object. Our new measurements are consistent with photoionization physics regulating the location of the broad line region in active galactic nuclei.
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@article{arxiv.1206.6523,
title = {Reverberation Mapping Results for Five Seyfert 1 Galaxies},
author = {C. J. Grier and B. M. Peterson and R. W. Pogge and K. D. Denney and M. C. Bentz and Paul Martini and S. G. Sergeev and S. Kaspi and T. Minezaki and Y. Zu and C. S. Kochanek and R. Siverd and B. Shappee and K. Z. Stanek and C. Araya Salvo and T. G. Beatty and J. C. Bird and D. J. Bord and G. A. Borman and X. Che and C. Chen and S. A. Cohen and M. Dietrich and V. T. Doroshenko and T. Drake and Yu. S. Efimov and N. Free and I. Ginsburg and C. B. Henderson and A. L. King and S. Koshida and K. Mogren and M. Molina and A. M. Mosquera and S. V. Nazarov and D. N. Okhmat and O. Pejcha and S. Rafter and J. C. Shields and J. Skowron and D. M. Szczygiel and M. Valluri and J. L. van Saders},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6523},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
45 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. For a brief video explaining the key results of this paper, see http://www.youtube.com/user/OSUAstronomy