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Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) powers active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and drives feedback that shapes galaxy evolution. Constraining AGN accretion disk structure is therefore essential for understanding black hole growth and…

Delayed reverberations of broad emission lines in response to optical continuum variations have been widely observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). They serve as a powerful tool for probing inner structures of AGNs and estimating the…

Changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~4151, which has attracted a lot of attention, is undergoing the second dramatic outburst stage in its evolutionary history. To investigate the geometry and kinematics of the broad-line region (BLR),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-07 Sha-Sha Li , Hai-Cheng Feng , H. T. Liu , J. M. Bai , Rui Li , Kai-Xing Lu , Jian-Guo Wang , Ying-Ke Huang , Zhi-Xiang Zhang

Spectroscopic reverberation mapping (RM) is a direct approach widely used to estimate the mass of black holes (BHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, it is very time consuming and difficult to apply to a large AGN sample. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-30 Shu Wang , Hengxiao Guo , Jong-Hak Woo

Mass estimates of black holes (BHs) in the centers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) often rely on the radius-luminosity relation. However, this relation, usually probed by reverberation mapping (RM), is poorly constrained in the…

We present the results of a four-year velocity-resolved reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of the changing-look active galactic nucleus (CL-AGN) NGC 4151 during its outburst phase. By measuring the time lags of the \ha, \hb, \hg, \hei, and…

We report the results of long-term reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns of the nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN) NGC 4151, spanning from 1994 to 2022, based on archived observations of the FAST Spectrograph Publicly Archived Programs and…

In the sixth of the series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with high accretion rates, we present velocity-resolved time lags of H$\beta$ emission lines for nine objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Pu Du , Kai-Xing Lu , Chen Hu , Jie Qiu , Yan-Rong Li , Ying-Ke Huang , Fang Wang , Jin-Ming Bai , Wei-Hao Bian , Ye-Fei Yuan , Luis C. Ho , Jian-Min Wang

We have undertaken a new ground-based monitoring campaign to improve the estimates of the mass of the central black hole in NGC 4151. We measure the lag time of the broad H beta line response compared to the optical continuum at 5100 A and…

The improvement of the calibration relation for determining the size of the broad-line region from the observed optical luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a necessary task to study fundamental parameters of distant AGNs such as…

The innermost regions of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are critical for understanding galaxy evolution and the dynamics of matter near a Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH). Yet, due to smaller angular projections, it is very difficult to resolve…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-07 Vivek Kumar Jha

We present a reanalysis of reverberation-mapping data from 2005 for the Seyfert galaxy NGC 4151, supplemented with additional data from the literature to constrain the continuum variations over a significantly longer baseline than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-17 Misty C. Bentz , Peter R. Williams , Tommaso Treu

We report first results from a large project to measure black hole (BH) mass in high accretion rate active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Such objects may be different from other AGNs in being powered by slim accretion disks and showing saturated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 P. Du , C. Hu , K. -X. Lu , F. Wang , J. Qiu , Y. -R. Li , J. -M. Bai , S. Kaspi , H. Netzer , J. -M. Wang

Continuum reverberation mapping probes the size scale of the optical continuum-emitting region in active galactic nuclei (AGN). The source of this emission has long been thought to originate from the accretion disk, but recent studies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-11 Jake A. Miller , Edward M. Cackett , Misty C. Bentz , Michael R. Goad , Kirk T. Korista , Ian M. McHardy

The mass of a supermassive black hole ($M_\mathrm{BH}$) is a fundamental property that can be obtained through observational methods. Constraining $M_\mathrm{BH}$ through multiple methods for an individual galaxy is important for verifying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Caroline A. Roberts , Misty C. Bentz , Eugene Vasiliev , Monica Valluri , Christopher A. Onken

Variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has long been servicing as an essential avenue of exploring the accretion physics of black hole (BH). There are two commonly used methods for analyzing AGN variability. First, the AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-04 Zhen-Bo Su , Zhen-Yi Cai , Mouyuan Sun , Hengxiao Guo , Wei-Min Gu , Jun-Xian Wang

As one of the series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping campaign of super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we present the results of 10 SEAMBHs monitored spectroscopically…

Reverberation mapping (RM) is the most promising method to measure the masses of supermassive black holes in the center of active galaxy nuclei (AGNs). However, the dominant jet component hinders the application of RM method for blazars. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Junhao Deng , Lizhi Liu , Yifan Wang , Yunguo Jiang

Reverberation mapping (RM) is an important technique in studies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The key idea of RM is to measure the time lag $\tau$ between variations in the continuum emission from the accretion disc and subsequent…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Brendon J. Brewer , Tom M. Elliott

Reverberation mapping probes the structure of the broad emission-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGN). The kinematics of the BLR gas can be used to measure the mass of the central supermassive black hole. The main uncertainty…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Andreas Skielboe , Anna Pancoast , Tommaso Treu , Daeseong Park , Aaron J. Barth , Misty C. Bentz
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