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利用MgII 2800发射线估算活动星系核中的黑洞质量

Estimating Black Hole Masses in Active Galactic Nuclei Using the MgII 2800 Emission Line

Jian-Guo Wang, Xiao-Bo Dong, Ting-Gui Wang, Luis C. Ho, Weimin Yuan, Huiyuan Wang, Kai Zhang, Shaohua Zhang, Hongyan Zhou

摘要:

研究了Mg II \lambda 2800宽谱线宽度与活动星系核中的H β谱线宽度之间的关系,并将其作为估算黑洞质量的工具.我们进行了详细的光谱分析的一个大样本的活动星系在中间红移选择斯隆数字巡天,随着一个较小的样本的档案紫外光谱附近的源监测混响映射。仔细注意致力于准确的光谱分解,特别是在窄线混合和Fe II污染的治疗。我们发现,与流行的看法相反,Mg II的速度宽度往往小于H β,这表明这两个物种是不是共空间的宽线区域。利用这些发现和最近更新的BH质量测量混响映射,我们提出了一个新的校准的经验处方估计维里BH质量AGN使用广泛的Mg II和Hbeta线。我们表明,BH群众来自我们的新形式主义显示出微妙的,但重要的差异相比,目前在文献中使用的一些质量估计。

英文摘要:

We investigate the relationship between the linewidths of broad Mg II \lambda2800 and Hbeta in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to refine them as tools to estimate black hole (BH) masses. We perform a detailed spectral analysis of a large sample of AGNs at intermediate redshifts selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with a smaller sample of archival ultraviolet spectra for nearby sources monitored with reverberation mapping. Careful attention is devoted to accurate spectral decomposition, especially in the treatment of narrow-line blending and Fe II contamination. We show that, contrary to popular belief, the velocity width of Mg II tends to be smaller than that of Hbeta, suggesting that the two species are not cospatial in the broad-line region. Using these findings and recently updated BH mass measurements from reverberation mapping, we present a new calibration of the empirical prescriptions for estimating virial BH masses for AGNs using the broad Mg II and Hbeta lines. We show that the BH masses derived from our new formalisms show subtle but important differences compared to some of the mass estimators currently used in the literature.

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