1. OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: H$\beta$ lags from the 6-year survey
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U Malik, R Sharp, A Penton, Z Yu, P Martini, C Lidman, B E Tucker, T M Davis, G F Lewis, M Aguena, S Allam, O Alves, F Andrade-Oliveira, J Asorey, D Bacon, E Bertin, S Bocquet, D Brooks, D L Burke, A Carnero Rosell, D Carollo, M Carrasco Kind, J Carretero, M Costanzi, L N da Costa, M E S Pereira, J De Vicente, S Desai, H T Diehl, P Doel, S Everett, I Ferrero, J Frieman, J García-Bellido, D W Gerdes, D Gruen, R A Gruendl, J Gschwend, S R Hinton, D L Hollowood, K Honscheid, D J James, K Kuehn, J L Marshall, J Mena-Fernández, F Menanteau, R Miquel, R L C Ogando, A Palmese, F Paz-Chinchón, A Pieres, A A Plazas Malagón, M Raveri, M Rodriguez-Monroy, A K Romer, E Sanchez, V Scarpine, I Sevilla-Noarbe, M Smith, M Soares-Santos, E Suchyta, M E C Swanson, G Tarle, G Taylor, D L Tucker, N Weaverdyck, R D Wilkinson, HEP, INSPIRE, and UAM. Departamento de Física Teórica
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Galaxies: Nuclei ,Space and Planetary Science ,Quasars: Supermassive Black Holes ,Quasars: General ,Física ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,[PHYS.ASTR] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Quasars: Emission Lines - Abstract
Artículo escrito por un elevado número de autores, solo se referencian el que aparece en primer lugar, los autores pertenecientes a la UAM y el nombre del grupo de colaboración, si lo hubiere, This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society following peer review. The version of record Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 520.2 (2023): 2009-2023 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/520/2/2009/6988199?redirectedFrom=fulltext#no-access-message, Reverberation mapping measurements have been used to constrain the relationship between the size of the broad-line region and luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). This R-L relation is used to estimate single-epoch virial black hole masses, and has been proposed to use to standardize AGN to determine cosmological distances. We present reverberation measurements made with Hβ from the 6-yr Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) Reverberation Mapping Program. We successfully recover reverberation lags for eight AGN at 0.12 < z < 0.71, probing higher redshifts than the bulk of Hβ measurements made to date. Our fit to the R-L relation has a slope of α = 0.41 ± 0.03 and an intrinsic scatter of σ = 0.23 ± 0.02 dex. The results from our multi-object spectroscopic survey are consistent with previous measurements made by dedicated source-by-source campaigns, and with the observed dependence on accretion rate. Future surveys, including LSST, TiDES, and SDSS-V, which will be revisiting some of our observed fields, will be able to build on the results of our first-generation multi-object reverberation mapping survey, The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MICINN under grants ESP2017-89838, PGC2018-094773, PGC2018-102021, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these re-sults has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciên-cia e Tecnologia (INCT) do e-Universo (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. De-partment of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics.
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