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利用Sloan数字巡天类星体0.7 < z < 2光谱估算超大质量黑洞质量

Supermassive Black Hole Mass Estimates Using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Spectra at 0.7 < z < 2

Alireza Rafiee, Patrick B. Hall

摘要:

我们提出了基于镁II的黑洞质量估计的27,602类星体与休息帧紫外光谱可在斯隆数字巡天数据发布三。这种估计是可能的,因为宽线区域的半径和3000埃处的连续发光度之间存在经验相关性。我们再生这种相关性,通过应用我们的测量方法,在HST/IUE数据库中的低红移类星体的紫外光谱,有相应的混响映射估计的Hbeta宽线区域的半径。我们的质量估计方法使用的线分散,而不是在低电离MgII发射线的半高全宽。我们测量镁II线色散的类星体,其光谱已重建使用最重要的本征谱通过主成分分析。我们已经测试了使用重建的光谱在黑洞质量估计的可靠性,使用蒙特卡罗模拟,并通过比较原始和重建的数据释放三光谱的结果。我们表明,使用重建的光谱不仅使无偏质量估计可能的类星体与低光谱信噪比,但也减少了内在的散射分布的黑洞质量低于0.15 dex。

英文摘要:

We present MgII-based black hole mass estimates for 27,602 quasars with rest-frame UV spectra available in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release Three. This estimation is possible due to the existence of an empirical correlation between the radius of the broad line region and the continuum luminosity at 3000 Angstroms. We regenerate this correlation by applying our measurement method to UV spectra of low-redshift quasars in the HST/IUE databases which have corresponding reverberation mapping estimates of the Hbeta broad line region's radius. Our mass estimation method uses the line dispersion rather than the full width at half maximum of the low-ionization MgII emission line. We measure MgII line dispersions for quasars whose spectra have been reconstructed using the most significant eigenspectra produced through Principal Component Analysis. We have tested the reliability of using reconstructed spectra in black hole mass estimation using a Monte Carlo simulation and by comparing the results from original and reconstructed Data Release Three spectra. We show that using reconstructed spectra not only makes bias-free mass estimation possible for quasars with low spectroscopic signal-to-noise ratio, but also reduces the intrinsic scatter of the distribution of the black hole masses to lower than 0.15 dex.

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