The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016 : velocity-resolved Hβ lags in luminous Seyfert galaxies
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25/01/2022Author
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ST/R00824/1
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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. Targetingactive galactic nuclei (AGN) with luminosities of λLλ(5100 Å) ≈ 1044 erg s−1 and predicted Hβ lags of∼ 20–30 days or black hole masses of 107–108.5 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 (107.1–108.1 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 dataset will elucidate the detailed kinematics and provide robust dynamical black hole masses for several objects in this sample.
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U , V , 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 , Valenti , S , Villafaña , L , Walsh , J L , Yuk , H & Zheng , W 2022 , ' The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2016 : velocity-resolved Hβ lags in luminous Seyfert galaxies ' , Astrophysical Journal , vol. 925 , no. 1 , 52 . https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac3d26
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Astrophysical Journal
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Peer reviewed
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0004-637XType
Journal article
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Funding: K.H. acknowledges support from STFC grant ST/R000824/1.Collections
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