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We present the results of broad-line region (BLR) dynamical modeling for eight high-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project, by constraining BLR geometry and kinematics as well as black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo , Lizvette Villafaña , Tommaso Treu , Elena Gallo

The structure of the accretion disk in AGN is still an unsolved question, especially how it may change with Eddington ratio. Here we examine the accretion disk in the super-Eddington AGN I Zw 1 using reverberation mapping of the optical…

The broad line region (BLR) of luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) is a prominent observational signature of the accretion flow around supermassive black holes, which can be used to measure their masses (M_BH) over cosmic history. Due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Jonathan Stern , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jörg-Uwe Pott

We consider photometric reverberation mapping, where the nuclear continuum variations are monitored via a broad-band filter and the echo of emission line clouds of the broad line region (BLR) is measured with a suitable narrow-band (NB)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Pozo Nuñez , M. Haas , M. Ramolla , C. Bruckmann , C. Westhues , R. Chini , K. Steenbrugge , R. Lemke , M. Murphy , W. Kollatschny

We present inferences on the geometry and kinematics of the broad-Hbeta line-emitting region in four active galactic nuclei monitored as a part of the fall 2010 reverberation mapping campaign at MDM Observatory led by the Ohio State…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 C. J. Grier , A. Pancoast , A. J. Barth , M. M. Fausnaugh , B. J. Brewer , T. Treu , B. M. Peterson

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…

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011 observing campaign was carried out over the course of 11 weeks in Spring 2011. Here we present the first results from this program, a measurement of the broad-line reverberation lag in the Seyfert 1…

We divide a sample of 302 type-1 AGNs into two subsamples based on the narrow line [OIII]/Hbeta_{NLR} ratio, since we expect that there will be a stronger starburst (HII region) contribution to the narrow line emission for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Luka C. Popovic , Jelena Kovacevic

NGC 2617 has attracted a lot of attention after the detection of the changes in spectral type, and its geometry and kinematics of broad-line region (BLR) are still ambiguous. In this paper, we present the high cadence ($\sim$ 2 days)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-19 Hai-Cheng. Feng , H. T. Liu , J. M. Bai , Zi-Xu. Yang , Chen. Hu , Sha-Sha. Li , Sen. Yang , Kai-Xing. Lu , Ming. Xiao

Over the past three decades, multiple reverberation mapping (RM) campaigns conducted for the quasar PG 2130+099 have exhibited inconsistent findings with time delays ranging from $\sim$10 to $\sim$200 days. To achieve a comprehensive…

Most results of the reverberation monitoring of active galaxies showed a universal scaling of the time delay of the Hbeta emission region with the monochromatic flux at 5100 A, with very small dipersion. Such a scaling favored the…

This work studies the relationship between accretion-disk size and quasar properties, using a sample of 95 quasars from the SDSS-RM project with measured lags between the $g$ and $i$ photometric bands. Our sample includes disk lags that are…

The width of the broad H-beta emission line is the primary defining characteristic of the NLS1 class. This parameter is also an important component of Boroson and Green's optical Eigenvector 1 (EV1), which links steeper soft X-ray spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. J. Wills , Z. Shang , J. M. Yuan

NGC 5548 is the best-observed reverberation-mapped active galactic nucleus with long-term, intensive monitoring. Here we report results from a new observational campaign between January and July, 2015. We measure the centroid time lag of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Kai-Xing Lu , Pu Du , Chen Hu , Yan-Rong Li , Zhi-Xiang Zhang , Kai Wang , Ying-Ke Huang , Shao-Lan Bi , Jin-Ming Bai , Luis C. Ho , Jian-Min Wang

We present the results of a reverberation mapping (RM) campaign on the black hole (BH) associated with the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in SDSS J114008.71+030711.4 (hereafter GH08). This object is selected from a sample of 19 candidate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Stephen Rafter , Shai Kaspi , Ehud Behar , Wolfram Kollatschny , Matthias Zetzl

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) show the disappearance and reappearance of broad emission lines in a few years, which challenges the orientation-based AGN unification model. We reduce the X-ray data for five well-studied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Hao Liu , Qingwen Wu , Bing Lyu

(abbreviated) We show that there is a limit relation between the black hole mass and the width at the half maximum of H$\beta$ for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with super-Eddington accretion rates. When a black hole has a super-Eddington…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian-Min Wang

The determination of the size and geometry of the broad line region (BLR) in active galactic nuclei is one of the major ingredients for determining the mass of the accreting black hole. This can be done by determining the delay between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 P. A. Rojas Lobos , R. W. Goosmann , J. M. Hameury , F. Marin

Here we present the long-term optical spectral monitoring of a changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGN) NGC 3516 that covers 22 years (from 1996 to 2018). We explore a variability in the broad lines and continuum, finding that the…

Based on an updated Hbeta reverberation mapping (RM) sample of 44 nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN), we propose a novel approach for black hole (BH) mass estimation using two filtered luminosities computed from single-epoch (SE) AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-26 Hua Feng , Yue Shen , Hong Li