期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 723, 期 1, 页码 409-416出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/723/1/409
关键词
galaxies: active; galaxies: nuclei; galaxies: Seyfert
资金
- NSF [AST-0548198 (UC Irvine), AST-0607485, AST-0908886 (UC Berkeley), AST-0642621 (UC Santa Barbara), AST-0507450 (UC Riverside)]
- Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation
- TABASGO Foundation for the continued operation of the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT)
- NASA [HF-51251, NAG5-7385, NAG5-7067]
- Space Telescope Science Institute [NAS 5-26555]
- PPARC
It is now possible to estimate black hole (BH) masses across cosmic time, using broad emission lines in active galaxies. This technique informs our views of how galaxies and their central BHs coevolve. Unfortunately, there are many outstanding uncertainties associated with these virial mass estimates. One of these comes from using the accretion luminosity to infer a size for the broad-line region (BLR). Incorporating the new sample of low-luminosity active galaxies from our recent monitoring campaign at Lick Observatory, we recalibrate the radius-luminosity relation with tracers of the accretion luminosity other than the optical continuum. We find that the radius of the BLR scales as the square root of the X-ray and H beta luminosities, in agreement with recent optical studies. On the other hand, the scaling appears to be marginally steeper with narrow-line luminosities. This is consistent with a previously observed decrease in the ratio of narrow-line to X-ray luminosity with increasing total luminosity. The radius of the BLR correlates most tightly with H beta luminosity, while the X-ray and narrow-line relations both have comparable scatter of a factor of 2. These correlations provide useful alternative virial BH masses in objects with no detectable optical/UV continuum emission, such as high-redshift galaxies with broad emission lines, radio-loud objects, or local active galaxies with galaxy-dominated continua.
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