Photometry/spectroscopic measurements for KA1858+4850

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KA1858+4850 is a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy at redshift 0.078 and is among the brightest active galaxies monitored by the Kepler mission. We have carried out a reverberation mapping campaign designed to measure the broad-line region size and estimate the mass of the black hole in this galaxy. We obtained 74 epochs of spectroscopic data using the Kast Spectrograph at the Lick 3 m telescope from 2012 February to November, and obtained complementary V-band images from five other ground-based telescopes. We measured the H{beta} light curve lag with respect to the V-band continuum light curve using both cross-correlation techniques (CCF) and continuum light curve variability modeling with the JAVELIN method and found rest-frame lags of {tau}CCF=13.53_-2.32_^+2.03^ days and {tau}JAVELIN=13.15_-1.00_^+1.08^ days. The H{beta} rms line profile has a width of {sigma}line=770+/-49 km/s. Combining these two results and assuming a virial scale factor of f=5.13, we obtained a virial estimate of M_BH_=8.06_-1.72_^+1.59^x10^6^M_{sun} for the mass of the central black hole and an Eddington ratio of L/L_Edd{approx}0.2. We also obtained consistent but slightly shorter emission-line lags with respect to the Kepler light curve. Thanks to the Kepler mission, the light curve of KA1858+4850 has among the highest cadences and signal-to-noise ratios ever measured for an active galactic nucleus; thus, our black hole mass measurement will serve as a reference point for relations between black hole mass and continuum variability characteristics in active galactic nuclei.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.17950038
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/795/38
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Creator Pei L.; Barth A.J.; Aldering G.S.; Briley M.M.; Carroll C.J.; Carson D.J.,Cenko S.B.; Clubb K.I.; Cohen D.P.; Cucchiara A.; Desjardins T.D.,Edelson R.; Fang J.J.; Fedrow J.M.; Filippenko A.V.; Fox O.D.; Furniss A.,Gates E.L.; Gregg M.; Gustafson S.; Horst J.C.; Joner M.D.; Kelly P.L.,Lacy M.; Laney C.D.; Leonard D.C.; Li W.; Malkan M.A.; Margon B.,Neeleman M.; Nguyen M.L.; Prochaska J.X.; Ross N.R.; Sand D.J.,Searcy K.J.; Shivvers I.S.; Silverman J.M.; Smith G.H.; Suzuki N.,Smith K.L.; Tytler D.; Werk J.K.; Worseck G.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2017
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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