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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 905, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abc2da
Keywords
Supermassive black holes; Seyfert galaxies; Active galactic nuclei; Quasars; Reverberation mapping; Time domain astronomy
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- National Key RAMP
- D Program of China [2016YFA0400701, 2016YFA0400702]
- National Science Foundation of China [11721303, 11773029, 11833008, 11873048, 11922304, 11973029, 11991051, 11991052, 11991054, 12003036, 12022301]
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) [QYZDJ-SSW-SLH007]
- CAS Key Research Program [KJZDEW-M06]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the CAS [XDB23000000, XDB23010400]
- State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa award [SEV-2017-0709]
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We report on the results of a new spectroscopic monitoring campaign of the quasar PG 0026+129 at the Calar Alto Observatory 2.2m telescope from 2017 July to 2020 February. Significant variations in the fluxes of the continuum and broad emission lines, including H beta and He II, were observed in the first and third years, and clear time lags between them are measured. The broad H beta line profile consists of two Gaussian components: an intermediate-width H beta(IC) with an FWHM of 1964 +/- 18 km s(-1) and another very broad H beta(VBC) with an FWHM of 7570 +/- 83 km s(-1). H beta(IC) has long time lags of similar to 40-60 days in the rest frame, while H beta(VBC) shows nearly zero time delay with respect to the optical continuum at 5100 A. The velocity-resolved delays show consistent results: lags of similar to 30-50 days at the core of the broad H beta line and roughly zero lags at the wings. H beta(IC) has a redshift of similar to 400 km s(-1), which seems to be stable for nearly 30 yr by comparing with archived spectra, and may originate from an infall. The rms spectrum of H beta(VBC) shows a double-peaked profile with brighter blue peak and extended red wing in the first year, which matches the signature of a thin disk. Both the double-peaked profile and the near-zero lag suggest that H beta(VBC) comes from a region associated with the part of the accretion disk that emits the optical continuum. Adopting the FWHM (in the rms spectrum) and the time lag measured for the total H beta line, and a virial factor of 1.5, we obtain a virial mass of 2.89(-0.69)(+0.60) x 10(7) M-circle dot for the central black hole in this quasar.
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