Determining Central Black Hole Masses in Distant Active Galaxies and Quasars. II. Improved Optical and UV Scaling Relationships

We present four improved empirical relationships useful for estimating the central black hole mass in nearby AGNs and distant luminous quasars alike using either optical or UV single-epoch spectroscopy. These mass scaling relationships between line widths and luminosity are based on recently improve...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Astrophysical journal 2006-04, Vol.641 (2), p.689-709
Hauptverfasser: Vestergaard, Marianne, Peterson, Bradley M
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Sprache:eng
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