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In the Spring of 2011 we carried out a 2.5 month reverberation mapping campaign using the 3 m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory, monitoring 15 low-redshift Seyfert 1 galaxies. This paper describes the observations, reductions and…

We present photometric reverberation mapping of the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy ESO399-IG20 performed with the robotic 15 cm telescope VYSOS-6 at the Cerro Armazones Observatory. Through the combination of broad- and narrow-band filters we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-18 F. Pozo Nuñez , C. Westhues , M. Ramolla , C. Bruckmann , M. Haas , R. Chini , K. Steenbrugge , R. Lemke , M. Murphy

We have modeled the velocity-resolved reverberation response of the H\b{eta} broad emission line in nine Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Lick Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) Monitioring Project 2016 sample, drawing inferences on the geometry and…

A tight relation between the size of the broad-line region (BLR) and optical luminosity has been established in about 50 active galactic nuclei studied through reverberation mapping of the broad Hbeta emission line. The R_blr-L relation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Jian-Min Wang , Pu Du , Yan-Rong Li , Luis C. Ho , Chen Hu , Jin-Ming Bai

High cadence, high quality observations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) clearly show continuum variations with lags, relative to the shortest observed variable UV continuum, that increase with wavelength ("lag spectra"). These have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-17 Hagai Netzer

The changes of broad emission lines should be a crucial issue to understanding the physical properties of changing-look active galactic nucleus (CL-AGN). Here, we present the results of an intensive and homogeneous 6-month long…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Hai-Cheng. Feng , Chen. Hu , Sha-Sha. Li , H. T. Liu , J. M. Bai , Li-Feng. Xing , Wei-Yang. Wang , Zi-Xu. Yang , Ming. Xiao , Kai-Xing. Lu

Continuum reverberation mapping probes the sizescale of the optical continuum-emitting region in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Through 3 years of multiwavelength photometric monitoring in the optical with robotic observatories, we perform…

We apply a new method of determination of the size of the broad emission-line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei. This method relates the radius of the broad-line region of AGN to the soft X-ray luminosity and spectral index. Comparing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Amri Wandel , Thomas Boller

Reverberation mapping is one of the main techniques used to study active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks. Traditional continuum reverberation mapping uses short lags between variability in different wavelength AGN light curves on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-15 Amy Secunda , Sebastian Wagner-Carena , Helen Qu , Shirley Ho

To understand the mass distribution and co-evolution of supermassive black holes with their host galaxy, it is crucial to measure the black hole mass of AGN. Reverberation mapping is a unique tool to estimate the black hole masses in AGN.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Shivangi Pandey , Suvendu Rakshit , Jong-Hak Woo , C. S. Stalin

An empirical relation between the broad line region (BLR) size and optical continuum luminosity is often adopted to estimate the BLR size and then the black hole mass of AGNs. However, optical luminosity may not be a good indicator of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xue-Bing Wu , R. Wang , M. Z. Kong , F. K. Liu , J. L. Han

We present the results of a five month monitoring campaign of the local active galactic nuclei (AGN) 3C120. Observations with a median sampling of two days were conducted with the robotic 15cm telescope VYSOS-6 located near Cerro Armazones…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-15 F. Pozo Nuñez , M. Ramolla , C. Westhues , C. Bruckmann , M. Haas , R. Chini , K. Steenbrugge , M. Murphy

The study of the broad-line region (BLR) using reverberation mapping has allowed us to establish an empirical relation between the size of this line emitting region and the continuum luminosity that drives the line emission (i.e. the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-14 Swayamtrupta Panda

In the standard AGN reverberation-mapping model, variations in broad-line region (BLR) fluxes are predicted from optical continuum variability (taken as a proxy for the ionizing continuum) convolved with a response function that depends on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-14 C. Martin Gaskell , Kayla Bartel , Julia N. Deffner , Iris Xia

We carried out spectroscopic monitoring of 21 low-redshift Seyfert 1 galaxies using the Kast double spectrograph on the 3-m Shane telescope at Lick Observatory from April 2016 to May 2017. Targeting active galactic nuclei (AGN) with…

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…

New reverberation mapping (RM) measurements, combined with accurate luminosities and line ratios, provide strong constraints on the location of the line emitting gas in the broad line region (BLR) of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 Hagai Netzer

We investigate the torus size -- luminosity relation of Type 1 AGNs based on the reverberation-mapping analysis using the light curves of the optical continuum and the IR continuum obtained with the W1 and W2-bands of the Wide-field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-22 Amit Kumar Mandal , Jong-Hak Woo , Shu Wang , Suvendu Rakshit , Hojin Cho , Donghoon Son , C. S. Stalin

We test the standardizability of a homogeneous sample of 41 lower-redshift ($0.00415\leq z \leq 0.474$) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) reverberation-mapped (RM) using the broad H$\alpha$ and H$\beta$ emission lines. We find that these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-07 Shulei Cao , Amit Kumar Mandal , Michal Zajaček , Bożena Czerny , Bharat Ratra

We present a new calibration of the broad-line region (BLR) size-luminosity-velocity relation using a sample of 157 AGNs with reliable Hbeta time-delay (\lag) measurements from Wang & Woo 2024. By incorporating the Eddington ratio as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Jong-Hak Woo , Jimin Kim , Hojin Cho , Shu Wang