Title: OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Hβ lags from the 6-yr survey

Abstract

Reverberation mapping measurements have been used to constrain the relationship between the size of the broad-line region and luminosity of active galactic nuclei (AGN). This R–L relation is used to estimate single-epoch virial black hole masses, and has been proposed to use to standardize AGN to determine cosmological distances. Here, we present reverberation measurements made with Hβ from the 6-yr Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) Reverberation Mapping Program. We successfully recover reverberation lags for eight AGN at 0.12 <; z < 0.71, probing higher redshifts than the bulk of Hβ measurements made to date. Our fit to the R–L relation has a slope of α = 0.41 ± 0.03 and an intrinsic scatter of σ = 0.23 ± 0.02 dex. The results from our multi-object spectroscopic survey are consistent with previous measurements made by dedicated source-by-source campaigns, and with the observed dependence on accretion rate. Future surveys, including LSST, TiDES, and SDSS-V, which will be revisiting some of our observed fields, will be able to build on the results of our first-generation multi-object reverberation mapping survey.

Authors:

Malik, U. ;

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Sharp, R.; Penton, A. ;

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Yu, Z.; Martini, P.; Lidman, C. ;

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Tucker, B. E.; Davis, T. M. ;

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Lewis, G. F. ;

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Aguena, M. ;

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Allam, S.; Alves, O.; Andrade-Oliveira, F.; Asorey, J. ;

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Bacon, D.; Bertin, E. ;

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Bocquet, S.; Brooks, D.; Burke, D. L.; Carnero Rosell, A.

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more »; Carollo, D.; Carrasco Kind, M. ;

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Carretero, J. ;

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Costanzi, M.; da Costa, L. N.; Pereira, M. E. S.; De Vicente, J. ;

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Desai, S.; Diehl, H. T.; Doel, P.; Everett, S.; Ferrero, I. ;

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Frieman, J.; García-Bellido, J. ;

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Gerdes, D. W.; Gruen, D. ;

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Gruendl, R. A.; Gschwend, J.; Hinton, S. R. ;

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Hollowood, D. L. ;

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Honscheid, K.; James, D. J.; Kuehn, K.; Marshall, J. L.; Mena-Fernández, J.; Menanteau, F.; Miquel, R.; Ogando, R. L. C. ;

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Palmese, A. ;

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Paz-Chinchón, F.; Pieres, A. ;

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Plazas Malagón, A. A. ;

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Raveri, M.; Rodriguez-Monroy, M.; Romer, A. K.; Sanchez, E.; Scarpine, V.; Sevilla-Noarbe, I.; Smith, M. ;

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Soares-Santos, M.; Suchyta, E. ;

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Swanson, M. E. C.; Tarle, G.; Taylor, G. ;

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Tucker, D. L.; Weaverdyck, N. ;

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Publication Date:

Mon Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2023

Research Org.:

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics

Contributing Org.:

OzDES Collaboration

OSTI Identifier:

1923942

Alternate Identifier(s):

OSTI ID: 1895395; OSTI ID: 1994645; OSTI ID: 2305691

Report Number(s):

FERMILAB-PUB-22-727-PPD; arXiv:2210.03977
Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711

Grant/Contract Number:  

SC-0011726; AC02-07CH11359; SC0011726; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:

Published Article

Journal Name:

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Name: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Journal Volume: 520 Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0035-8711

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Country of Publication:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Subject:

79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; active galaxies; nuclei; quasars; emission lines; general quasars; supermassive black holes