Estimating Black Hole Masses of AGNs using Ultraviolet Emission Line Properties

• 作 者: Min-Zhi Kong Xue-Bing Wu Ran W
• 机 构: NationalAstronomicalObservatories,DepartmentofAstronomy
• 出 处: 中国天文和天体物理学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2006年4期
• 关键词: 银河系 核子 红移 天体谱线 galaxies： nucleus -- galaxies： high-redshift-- quasars： emission
• 基金项目: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Marianne Vestergaard for kindly providing us her iron template data in the UV band, and Dr. Michael Corbin

<正>Based on measured broad line region sizes in the reverberation-mapping AGN sample, two new empirical relations are introduced to estimate the central black hole masses of radio-loud high-redshift (z > 0.5) AGNs. First, using the archival IUE/H