Probing the C iv Continuum Size–Luminosity Relation in Active Galactic Nuclei with Photometric Reverberation Mapping
Swayamtrupta Panda,
Francisco Pozo Nuñez,
Eduardo Bañados
et al.
Abstract:Reverberation mapping accurately determines virial black hole masses only for redshifts z < 0.2 by utilizing the relationship between the Hβ broad-line region (BLR) size and the 5100 Å continuum luminosity established with ∼200 active galactic nuclei. For quasars at z ∼ 2–3 determining the BLR size is time-consuming and limited by seasonal gaps, requiring, e.g., ∼20 yr of monitoring of the C iv emission lines. In this work, we demonstrate that an efficient alternative is to use a continuum size–luminosity r… Show more
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