Reverberation mapping of the Seyfert Zw I 1

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We report results of the first reverberation mapping campaign of I Zwicky 1 during 2014-2016, which showed unambiguous reverberations of the broad H{beta} line emission in the varying optical continuum. From analysis using several methods, we obtain a reverberation lag of {tau}H{beta}=37.2_-4.9_^+4.5^days. Taking a virial factor of f_BLR_=1, we find a black hole mass of M_{bullet}=9.30-1.38_^+1.26^x10^6^M_{sun} from the mean spectra. The accretion rate is estimated to be 203.9-65.8_^+61.0^L_Edd_c^-2^, suggesting a super-Eddington accretor, where LEdd is the Eddington luminosity and c is the speed of light. By decomposing Hubble Space Telescope images, we find that the stellar mass of the bulge of its host galaxy is log(M_bulge_/M_{sun})=10.92+/-0.07. This leads to a black hole to bulge mass ratio of ~10^-4^, which is significantly smaller than that of classical bulges and elliptical galaxies. After subtracting the host contamination from the observed luminosity, we find that I Zw 1 follows the empirical R_BLR{propto}L_5100_^1/2^ relation.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18760102
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/876/102
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Creator Huang Y.-K.; Hu C.; Zhao Y.-L.; Zhang Z.-X.; Lu K.-X.; Wang K.; Zhang Y.,Du P.; Li Y.-R.; Bai J.-M.; Ho L.C.; Bian W.-H.; Yuan Y.-F.; Wang J.-M.
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Publication Year 2020
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Interdisciplinary Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics