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The broad line region (BLR) size-luminosity relation has paramount importance for estimating the mass of black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Traditionally, the size of the H$\beta$ BLR is often estimated from the optical continuum…

We reinvestigate the relationship between the characteristic broad-line region size (R_blr) and the Balmer emission-line, X-ray, UV, and optical continuum luminosities. Our study makes use of the best available determinations of R_blr for a…

We present the main results from a long-term reverberation mapping campaign carried out for the Seoul National University Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Monitoring Project. High-quality data were obtained during 2015-2021 for 32 luminous AGNs…

We present an updated and revised analysis of the relationship between the Hbeta broad-line region (BLR) radius and the luminosity of the active galactic nucleus (AGN). Specifically, we have carried out two-dimensional surface brightness…

For a compiled sample of 120 reverberation-mapped AGNs, the bivariate correlations of the broad-line regions (BLRs) size ($R_{\rm BLR}$) with the continuum luminosity at 5100 \AA\ ($L_{5100}$) and the dimensionless accretion rates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Li-Ming Yu , Bi-Xuan Zhao , Wei-Hao Bian , Chan Wang , Xue Ge

We present a high-quality, homogeneous sample of 157 H$\beta$ reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei (RM AGNs) spanning redshifts $0.00308 \leq z \leq 0.8429$, which is approximately 3.8 times larger than the previously available…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 Shulei Cao , Amit Kumar Mandal , Michal Zajaček , Bharat Ratra

Understanding the geometry and kinematics of the broad line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is important to estimate black hole masses in AGN and study the accretion process. The technique of reverberation mapping (RM) has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Amit Kumar Mandal , Suvendu Rakshit , C. S. Stalin , R. G. Petrov , Blesson Mathew , Ram Sagar

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 masses and emission-line region sizes of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) can be measured by ``reverberation-mapping'' (measuring the lag of the emission-line luminosity after changes in the continuum). We use tis technique to calibrate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Wandel , B. M. Peterson , M. A. Malkan

This is the first paper in a series devoted to systematic study of the size and structure of the broad-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using reverberation mapping (RM) data. We employ a recently developed Bayesian…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-07 Yan-Rong Li , Jian-Min Wang , Luis C. Ho , Pu Du , Jin-Ming Bai

Motivated by recent progress in the statistical modeling of quasar variability, we develop a new approach to measuring emission-line reverberation lags to estimate the size of broad-line regions (BLRs) in active galactic nuclei. Assuming…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ying Zu , C. S. Kochanek , Bradley. M. Peterson

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show a correlation between the size of the broad line region (BLR) and the monochromatic continuum luminosity at 5100 \AA, allowing black hole mass estimation based on single-epoch spectra. However, the…

A 7.5 years spectrophotometric monitoring program of 28 Palomar-Green quasars to determine the size of their broad emission line region (BLR) is reviewed. We find both the continuum and the emission line fluxes of all quasars to vary during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shai Kaspi

Photometric reverberation mapping employs a wide bandpass to measure the AGN continuum variations and a suitable band, usually a narrow band (NB), to trace the echo of an emission line in the broad line region (BLR). The narrow band catches…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Haas , R. Chini , M. Ramolla , F. Pozo Nunez , C. Westhues , R. Watermann , V. Hoffmeister , M. Murphy

(abridged) We have spectrophotometrically monitored a well-defined sample of 28 Palomar-Green quasars in order to obtain measurements of their BLRs and to investigate the relationships between quasar luminosity, central black hole mass, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Shai Kaspi , Paul S. Smith , Hagai Netzer , Dan Maoz , Buell T. Jannuzi , Uriel Giveon

Unveiling the structure of the Broad Line Region (BLR) of AGN is critical to understand the quasar phenomenon. Detail study of the geometry and kinematic of these objects can answer the basic questions about the central BH mass, accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-14 Suvendu Rakshit , Romain G. Petrov

We measure and compare the size of the dusty torus with active galactic nucleus (AGN) luminosity and the size of the broad-line region (BLR), using a sample of 182 AGNs with the best H$\beta$ lag measurements. After correcting for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Ashraf Ayubinia , Jong-Hak Woo , Shu Wang , Amit Kumar Mandal , Donghoon Son

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…

Reverberation mapping (RM) of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been used over the past three decades to determine AGN broad-line region (BLR) sizes and central black-hole masses, and their relations with the AGN's luminosity. Until…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-03 Shai Kaspi , W. N. Brandt , Dan Maoz , Hagai Netzer , Donald P. Schneider , Ohad Shemmer , C. J. Grier
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