Relations between central black hole mass and total galaxy stellar mass in the local universe

AE Reines, M Volonteri - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Scaling relations between central black hole (BH) mass and host galaxy properties are of
fundamental importance to studies of BH and galaxy evolution throughout cosmic time. Here …

The low-luminosity end of the radius–luminosity relationship for active galactic nuclei

MC Bentz, KD Denney, CJ Grier, AJ Barth… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an updated and revised analysis of the relationship between the Hβ broad-line
region (BLR) radius and the luminosity of the active galactic nucleus (AGN). Specifically, we …

Dwarf galaxies with optical signatures of active massive black holes

AE Reines, JE Greene, M Geha - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a sample of 151 dwarf galaxies (10 8.5≲ M⋆≲ 10 9.5 M☉) that exhibit optical
spectroscopic signatures of accreting massive black holes (BHs), increasing the number of …

The AGN black hole mass database

MC Bentz, S Katz - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The AGN Black Hole Mass Database is a compilation of all published spectroscopic
reverberation-mapping studies of active galaxies. We have created a public Web interface …

Properties of AGN coronae in the NuSTAR era

AC Fabian, A Lohfink, E Kara, ML Parker… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The focusing optics of NuSTAR have enabled high signal-to-noise ratio spectra to be
obtained from many X-ray bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) and galactic black hole …

Unification of the fundamental plane and super massive black hole masses

RCE van den Bosch - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
According to the virial theorem, all gravitational systems in equilibrium sit on a plane in the
three-dimensional parameter space defined by their mass, size, and second moment of the …

The radius–luminosity relationship depends on optical spectra in active galactic nuclei

P Du, JM Wang - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The radius–luminosity () relationship of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) established by the
reverberation mapping (RM) observations has been widely used as a single-epoch black …

Modelling reverberation mapping data–II. Dynamical modelling of the Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2008 data set

A Pancoast, BJ Brewer, T Treu, D Park… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present dynamical modelling of the broad-line region (BLR) for a sample of five Seyfert 1
galaxies using reverberation mapping data taken by the Lick AGN Monitoring Project in …

Measuring the masses of supermassive black holes

BM Peterson - The Physics of Accretion onto Black Holes, 2015 - Springer
Supermassive black holes reside at the centers of most, if not all, massive galaxies: the
difference between active and quiescent galaxies is due to differences in mass accretion …

Reverberation measurements of the inner radius of the dust torus in 17 Seyfert galaxies

S Koshida, T Minezaki, Y Yoshii… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a dust reverberation survey for 17 nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies, which
provides the largest homogeneous data collection for the radius of the innermost dust torus …