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光变对类星体黑洞质量估计的影响

The Effect of Variability on the Estimation of Quasar Black Hole Masses

B. C. Wilhite, R. J. Brunner, D. P. Schneider, D. E. Vanden Berk

摘要:

研究了斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)中类星体紫外(UV)黑洞质量估计随时间的变化。从615个高红移(1.69 < z < 4.75)类星体的SDSS光谱,从两个历元的光谱,我们估计黑洞的质量,使用一个单一的历元技术,采用一个额外的,自动的夜空线删除,并依赖于紫外连续光度和CIV(1549 A)发射线色散。质量估计显示,对于整个样本来说,各时期之间的变化约为30%。我们确定,对于我们的完整样本,线分散的测量误差可能比固有的可变性起着更大的作用,在有助于时代之间的质量估计的变化。然而,我们利用r波段光谱信噪比大于15的类星体的变化来估计,这些变化的贡献来自固有的可变性大约是20%。我们的结论是,这些差异在黑洞质量估计之间的时代表明可变性是不是一个大的贡献者,目前的因素,两个分散的质量估计来自低和高电离发射线。

英文摘要:

We investigate the time-dependent variations of ultraviolet (UV) black hole mass estimates of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). From SDSS spectra of 615 high-redshift (1.69 < z < 4.75) quasars with spectra from two epochs, we estimate black hole masses, using a single-epoch technique which employs an additional, automated night-sky-line removal, and relies on UV continuum luminosity and CIV (1549A) emission line dispersion. Mass estimates show variations between epochs at about the 30% level for the sample as a whole. We determine that, for our full sample, measurement error in the line dispersion likely plays a larger role than the inherent variability, in terms of contributing to variations in mass estimates between epochs. However, we use the variations in quasars with r-band spectral signal-to-noise ratio greater than 15 to estimate that the contribution to these variations from inherent variability is roughly 20%. We conclude that these differences in black hole mass estimates between epochs indicate variability is not a large contributer to the current factor of two scatter between mass estimates derived from low- and high-ionization emission lines.

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