The Black Hole Masses of High-Redshift Quasars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A reliable method for estimating the black-hole masses of high-redshift quasars would provide crucial new information for understanding the nature and cosmological evolution of quasars. In this proceedings we summarize the results of our recent paper (McLure & Jarvis 2002) which provides a virial black-hole mass estimator based on rest-frame UV observables, thereby allowing reliable black-hole mass estimates to be obtained out to redshifts of from optical spectra alone.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0302457,
title = {The Black Hole Masses of High-Redshift Quasars},
author = {R. J McLure and M. J. Jarvis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0302457},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, To appear in "Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies," ed. L. C. Ho (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium1/proceedings.html)