Estimates of AGN Black Hole Mass and Minimum Variability Timescale

• 作 者: Guang-Zhong Xie Luo-En Chen Hu
• 机 构: NationalAstronomicalObservatories,YunnanAstrophysicsCenter,PhysicsDepartment,PhysicsDepartment,Gradu
• 出 处: 中国天文和天体物理学报：英文版
• 发表日期: 2005年5期
• 关键词: 黑洞 塌缩星 结构参数 恒星 galaxies： active - galaxies： nuclei - galaxies： fundamental param
• 基金项目: 国家自然科学基金，the Western Light Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences，国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划)

Black hole mass is one of the fundamental physical parameters of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), for which many methods of estimation have been proposed.One set of methods assumes that the broad-line region (BLR) is gravitationally bound by the central bla