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The Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project. II. BLR Size and Black Hole Mass of Two AGNs

Authors :
Suvendu Rakshit
Jong-Hak Woo
Elena Gallo
Edmund Hodges-Kluck
Jaejin Shin
Yiseul Jeon
Hyun-Jin Bae
Vivienne Baldassare
Hojin Cho
Wanjin Cho
Adi Foord
Daeun Kang
Wonseok Kang
Marios Karouzos
Minjin Kim
Taewoo Kim
Huynh Anh N. Le
Daeseong Park
Songyoun Park
Donghoon Son
Hyun-il Sung
Vardha N. Bennert
Matthew A. Malkan
Source :
Astrophysical Journal. 886(2)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 2019.

Abstract

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show a correlation between the size of the broad line region and the monochromatic continuum luminosity at 5100 Å, allowing black hole mass estimation based on single-epoch spectra. However, the validity of the correlation is yet to be clearly tested for high-luminosity AGNs. We present the first reverberation mapping results of the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP), which is designed to focus on luminous AGNs for probing the high end of the size–luminosity relation. We report time lag measurements of two AGNs, namely, 2MASS J10261389+5237510 and SDSS J161911.24+501109.2, using the light curves obtained over an ~1000 days period with an average cadence of 10 and 20 days, respectively, for photometry and spectroscopy monitoring. Based on a cross-correlation analysis and Hβ line width measurements, we determine the Hβ lag as 41.8(+4.9, -6.0) and 52.6(+17.6, -14.7) days in the observed frame, and black hole mass as 3.65(+0.49,-0.57) X 10 (exp 7) Solar Mass and 23.02(+7.81,-6.56) X 10 (exp 7) Solar Mass, respectively, for 2MASS J1026 and SDSS J1619.

Subjects

Subjects :
Astrophysics

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15384357 and 0004637X
Volume :
886
Issue :
2
Database :
NASA Technical Reports
Journal :
Astrophysical Journal
Notes :
888692, , SSTF -BA1501-05
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsnas.20205000332
Document Type :
Report
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab49fd