The cosmological evolution of quasar black hole masses

RJ McLure, JS Dunlop - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Virial black hole mass estimates are presented for 12 698 quasars in the redshift interval
0.1≤ z≤ 2.1, based on modelling of spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) first …

Black hole mass and Eddington ratio as drivers for the observable properties of radio-loud and radio-quiet QSOs

TA Boroson - The Astrophysical Journal, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent studies of black holes in the nuclei of both active and normal galaxies have yielded
relationships that permit a physical interpretation of the principal components of the spectra …

Quasars, their host galaxies and their central black holes

JS Dunlop, RJ McLure, MJ Kukula… - Monthly Notices of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We present the final results from our deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging study of
the host galaxies of radio-quiet quasars (RQQs), radio-loud quasars (RLQs) and radio …

Updating quasar bolometric luminosity corrections

JC Runnoe, MS Brotherton… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Bolometric corrections are used in quasar studies to quantify total energy output based on a
measurement of a monochromatic luminosity. First, we enumerate and discuss the practical …

Probing the coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies using gravitationally lensed quasar hosts

CY Peng, CD Impey, HW Rix… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In the present-day universe, supermassive black hole masses (Script M BH) appear to be
strongly correlated with their galaxy's bulge luminosity, among other properties. In this study …

Optical and near-infrared imaging of the IRAS 1 Jy sample of ultraluminous infrared galaxies. II. The analysis

S Veilleux, DC Kim, DB Sanders - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
An R and K′ atlas of the IRAS 1 Jy sample of 118 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs)
was presented in a companion paper (our Paper I). The present paper discusses the results …

The Next Generation Atlas of Quasar Spectral Energy Distributions from Radio to X-Rays

Z Shang, MS Brotherton, BJ Wills, D Wills… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We have produced the next generation of quasar spectral energy distributions (SEDs),
essentially updating the work of Elvis et al. by using high-quality data obtained with several …

The black hole mass scale of classical and pseudo bulges in active galaxies

LC Ho, M Kim - The Astrophysical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The mass estimator used to calculate black hole (BH) masses in broad-line active galactic
nuclei (AGNs) relies on a virial coefficient (the" f factor") that is determined by comparing …

Active galactic nucleus host galaxy morphologies in COSMOS

JM Gabor, CD Impey, K Jahnke… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We use Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys images and a
photometric catalog of the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) field to analyze …

A deep Hubble Space Telescope H-band imaging survey of massive gas-rich mergers. II. The QUEST QSOs

S Veilleux, DC Kim, DSN Rupke, CY Peng… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results from a deep Hubble Space Telescope (HST) NICMOS H-band imaging
survey of 28 z< 0.3 QSOs from the Palomar-Green (PG) sample. This program is part of …