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OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: Hβ lags from the 6-yr survey
- Malik, U;
- Sharp, R;
- Penton, A;
- Yu, Z;
- Martini, P;
- Lidman, C;
- Tucker, BE;
- Davis, TM;
- Lewis, GF;
- Aguena, M;
- Allam, S;
- Alves, O;
- Andrade-Oliveira, F;
- Asorey, J;
- Bacon, D;
- Bertin, E;
- Bocquet, S;
- Brooks, D;
- Burke, DL;
- Rosell, A Carnero;
- Carollo, D;
- Kind, M Carrasco;
- Carretero, J;
- Costanzi, M;
- da Costa, LN;
- Pereira, MES;
- De Vicente, J;
- Desai, S;
- Diehl, HT;
- Doel, P;
- Everett, S;
- Ferrero, I;
- Frieman, J;
- García-Bellido, J;
- Gerdes, DW;
- Gruen, D;
- Gruendl, RA;
- Gschwend, J;
- Hinton, SR;
- Hollowood, DL;
- Honscheid, K;
- James, DJ;
- Kuehn, K;
- Marshall, JL;
- Mena-Fernández, J;
- Menanteau, F;
- Miquel, R;
- Ogando, RLC;
- Palmese, A;
- Paz-Chinchón, F;
- Pieres, A;
- Malagón, AA Plazas;
- Raveri, M;
- Rodriguez-Monroy, M;
- Romer, AK;
- Sanchez, E;
- Scarpine, V;
- Sevilla-Noarbe, I;
- Smith, M;
- Soares-Santos, M;
- Suchyta, E;
- Swanson, MEC;
- Tarle, G;
- Taylor, G;
- Tucker, DL;
- Weaverdyck, N;
- Wilkinson, RD
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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. 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.
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