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C IV black hole mass measurements with the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES)

Hoormann, JK; Martini, P; Davis, TM; King, A; Lidman, C; Mudd, D; Sharp, R; ... Uddin, SA; + view all (2019) C IV black hole mass measurements with the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 487 (3) pp. 3650-3663. 10.1093/mnras/stz1539. Green open access

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Abstract

Black hole mass measurements outside the local Universe are critically important to derive the growth of supermassive black holes over cosmic time, and to study the interplay between black hole growth and galaxy evolution. In this paper, we present two measurements of supermassive black hole masses from reverberation mapping (RM) of the broad C IV emission line. These measurements are based on multiyear photometry and spectroscopy from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN) and the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES), which together constitute the OzDES RM Program. The observed reverberation lag between the DES continuum photometry and the OzDES emission line fluxes is measured to be 358+126−123 and 343+58−84 d for two quasars at redshifts of 1.905 and 2.593, respectively. The corresponding masses of the two supermassive black holes are 4.4 × 109 and 3.3 × 109 M⊙, which are among the highest redshift and highest mass black holes measured to date with RM studies. We use these new measurements to better determine the C IV radius−luminosity relationship for high-luminosity quasars, which is fundamental to many quasar black hole mass estimates and demographic studies.

Type: Article
Title: C IV black hole mass measurements with the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1539
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1539
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Astronomy & Astrophysics, accretion, accretion discs, black hole physics, galaxies: evolution, quasars: emission lines, ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, BROAD-LINE REGION, QUASARS, SIZE, LUMINOSITY, CONTINUUM, GALAXIES, STEPS
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080226
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