- Pei, Liuyi;
- Barth, Aaron J;
- Aldering, Greg S;
- Briley, Michael M;
- Carroll, Carla J;
- Carson, Daniel J;
- Cenko, S Bradley;
- Clubb, Kelsey I;
- Cohen, Daniel P;
- Cucchiara, Antonino;
- Desjardins, Tyler D;
- Edelson, Rick;
- Fang, Jerome J;
- Fedrow, Joseph M;
- Filippenko, Alexei V;
- Fox, Ori D;
- Furniss, Amy;
- Gates, Elinor L;
- Gregg, Michael;
- Gustafson, Scott;
- Horst, J Chuck;
- Joner, Michael D;
- Kelly, Patrick L;
- Lacy, Mark;
- Laney, C David;
- Leonard, Douglas C;
- Li, Weidong;
- Malkan, Matthew A;
- Margon, Bruce;
- Neeleman, Marcel;
- Nguyen, My L;
- Prochaska, J Xavier;
- Ross, Nathaniel R;
- Sand, David J;
- Searcy, Kinchen J;
- Shivvers, Isaac S;
- Silverman, Jeffrey M;
- Smith, Graeme H;
- Suzuki, Nao;
- Smith, Krista Lynne;
- Tytler, David;
- Werk, Jessica K;
- Worseck, Gábor
KA1858+4850 is a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy at redshift 0.078 and is among the brightest active galaxies monitored by the Kepler mission. We have carried out a reverberation mapping campaign designed to measure the broad-line region size and estimate the mass of the black hole in this galaxy. We obtained 74 epochs of spectroscopic data using the Kast Spectrograph at the Lick 3 m telescope from 2012 February to November, and obtained complementary V-band images from five other ground-based telescopes. We measured the Hβ light curve lag with respect to the V-band continuum light curve using both cross-correlation techniques (CCF) and continuum light curve variability modeling with the JAVELIN method and found rest-frame lags of days and τJAVELINdays. The Hβ rms line profile has a width of σline = 770 ± 49 km s-1. Combining these two results and assuming a virial scale factor of f = 5.13, we obtained a virial estimate of for the mass of the central black hole and an Eddington ratio of L/L Edd 0.2. We also obtained consistent but slightly shorter emission-line lags with respect to the Kepler light curve. Thanks to the Kepler mission, the light curve of KA1858+4850 has among the highest cadences and signal-to-noise ratios ever measured for an active galactic nucleus; thus, our black hole mass measurement will serve as a reference point for relations between black hole mass and continuum variability characteristics in active galactic nuclei.