Journal Article

PUBDB-2022-06313

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016: Velocity-resolved Hβ Lags in Luminous Seyfert Galaxies

U, V. (Corresponding author) ; Barth, A. J. ; Vogler, H. A. ; Guo, H. ; Treu, T. ; Bennert, V. N. ; Canalizo, G. ; Filippenko, A. V. ; Gates, E. ; Hamann, F. ; Joner, M. D. ; Malkan, M. A. ; Pancoast, A. ; Williams, P. R. ; Woo, J.-H. ; Abolfathi, B. ; Abramson, L. E. ; Armen, S. F. ; Bae, H.-J. ; Bohn, T. ; Boizelle, B. D. ; Bostroem, A. ; Brandel, A. ; Brink, T. G. ; Channa, S. ; Cooper, M. C. ; Cosens, M. ; Donohue, E. ; Fillingham, S. P. ; González-Buitrago, D. ; Halevi, G. ; Halle, A. ; Hood, C. E. ; Horne, K. ; Horst, J. C. ; de Kouchkovsky, M. ; Kuhn, B. ; Kumar, S. ; Leonard, D. C. ; Loveland, D. ; Manzano-King, C. ; McHardy, I. ; Michel, R. ; Olaes, M. K. B. ; Park, D. ; Park, S. ; Pei, L. ; Ross, T. W. ; Runco, J. N. ; Samuel, J. ; Sánchez, J. ; Scott, B. ; Sexton, R. O. ; Shin, J. ; Shivvers, I. ; Spencer, C. L. ; Stahl, B. E. ; Stegman, S. ; Stomberg, I.DESY* ; Valenti, S. ; Villafaña, L. ; Walsh, J. L. ; Yuk, H. ; Zheng, W.

2022
Univ. Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac3d26  doi:10.3204/PUBDB-2022-06313

Report No.: FERMILAB-PUB-21-721-PPD; arXiv:2111.14849

Abstract: 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 2016 April to 2017 May. Targeting active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with luminosities of λ L $_{λ}$(5100 Å) ≈ 10$^{44}$ erg s$^{−1}$ and predicted Hβ lags of ∼20–30 days or black hole masses of 10$^{7}$–10$^{8.5}$ M $_{⊙}$, our campaign probes luminosity-dependent trends in broad-line region (BLR) structure and dynamics as well as to improve calibrations for single-epoch estimates of quasar black hole masses. Here we present the first results from the campaign, including Hβ emission-line light curves, integrated Hβ lag times (8–30 days) measured against V-band continuum light curves, velocity-resolved reverberation lags, line widths of the broad Hβ components, and virial black hole mass estimates (10$^{7.1}$–10$^{8.1}$ M $_{⊙}$). Our results add significantly to the number of existing velocity-resolved lag measurements and reveal a diversity of BLR gas kinematics at moderately high AGN luminosities. AGN continuum luminosity appears not to be correlated with the type of kinematics that its BLR gas may exhibit. Follow-up direct modeling of this data set will elucidate the detailed kinematics and provide robust dynamical black hole masses for several objects in this sample.

Note: ISSN 1538-4357 not unique: **2 hits**.34 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Theorie-Gruppe (T)

Research Program(s):

1. 611 - Fundamental Particles and Forces (POF4-611) (POF4-611)
2. DFG project 390833306 - EXC 2121: Quantum Universe (390833306) (390833306)

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1. No specific instrument

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