Estimating Black Hole Masses in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei from X-Ray and Optical Emission Line Luminosities

Estimating Black Hole Masses in Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei from X-Ray and Optical Emission Line Luminosities

We test a novel method for estimating black hole masses ( M _BH ) in obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN) that uses proxies to measure the FWHM of broad H α (FWHM _bH _α ) and the accretion disk luminosity at 5100 Å ( λL _5100 Å ). Using a published correlation, we estimate FWHM _bH _α from the nar...

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Main Authors: Stephanie LaMassa, Isabella Farrow, C. Megan Urry, Benny Trakhtenbrot, Connor Auge, Michael J. Koss, Alessandro Peca, Dave Sanders, Tracey Jane Turner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2025-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Supermassive black holes
X-ray astronomy
Seyfert galaxies
Active galactic nuclei
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adb0bf
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