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Astronomy Colloquium (2022 Spring Semester)

* Date
May 26
* Speaker
Shu Wang(SNU Science Fellow)
* Title
Investigating the high-luminosity end of the H beta size-luminosity relation — Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP)
* Abstract
 

 

 Reverberation mapping (RM) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is the primary method to determine AGN broad line region (BLR) sizes and black hole (BH) masses. Most objects in the current H beta RM sample are low-to-intermediate luminosity AGNs with only a few objects larger than L5100=10^45 erg/s. Here we present the latest result from our 6-year Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project (SAMP).  With hundreds of nights of regularly sampled spectroscopic/photometric observations, we successfully measure H beta lags and BH masses for ~ 30 objects at the luminosity range of L5100 ~ 10^44.0 ~ 45.5 erg/s.  This sample enables us to test the H beta size-luminosity relation at the high-luminosity regime, and investigate how the departure from the size-luminosity relation correlates with AGN properties, .e.g, Eddington ratios. We will also briefly show other key results, including velocity resolved H beta lags and BLR stratification based on lags of multiple emission lines, and discuss the implication of these realists on the BLR properties of high luminosity AGNs.