Published March 20, 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES WITH HIGH ACCRETION RATES IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. VI. VELOCITY-RESOLVED REVERBERATION MAPPING OF THE Hβ LINE

  • 1. Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19B Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049 (China)
  • 2. Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011 (China)
  • 3. Physics Department, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097 (China)
  • 4. Department of Astronomy, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 (China)
  • 5. Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing 100871 (China)

Description

In the sixth of a series of papers reporting on a large reverberation mapping (RM) campaign of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with high accretion rates, we present velocity-resolved time lags of Hβ emission lines for nine objects observed in the campaign during 2012–2013. In order to correct the line broadening caused by seeing and instruments before analyzing the velocity-resolved RM, we adopt the Richardson–Lucy deconvolution to reconstruct their Hβ profiles. The validity and effectiveness of the deconvolution are checked using Monte Carlo simulation. Five among the nine objects show clear dependence of the time delay on velocity. Mrk 335 and Mrk 486 show signatures of gas inflow whereas the clouds in the broad-line regions (BLRs) of Mrk 142 and MCG +06-26-012 tend to be radial outflowing. Mrk 1044 is consistent with having virialized motions. The lags of the remaining four are not velocity-resolvable. The velocity-resolved RM of super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) shows that they have diverse kinematics in their BLRs. Comparing with the AGNs with sub-Eddington accretion rates, we do not find significant differences in the BLR kinematics of SEAMBHs

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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/1/27

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
820
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
[11 p.]
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOAB

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47090820
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
ACCRETION DISKS; BLACK HOLES; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; GALAXIES; GALAXY NUCLEI; LINE BROADENING; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUASARS; TIME DELAY; VELOCITY
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; EVALUATION; SIMULATION

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Collaborations
SEAMBH Collaboration