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High redshift quasars monitoring campaign

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2014

Ismael Botti ,
Paulina Lira ,
Jorge Martinez ,
Hagai Netzer  and
Shai Kaspi
Ismael Botti
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham NG7, 2RD, U.K. email: ppxib1@nottingham.ac.uk
Paulina Lira
Affiliation:
Depto. de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Santiago, Chile email: plira@das.uchile.cl, jorgemarpa@ug.uchile.cl
Jorge Martinez
Affiliation:
Depto. de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Camino El Observatorio 1515, Santiago, Chile email: plira@das.uchile.cl, jorgemarpa@ug.uchile.cl
Hagai Netzer
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy and the Wise Observatory The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel email: netzer@wise.tau.ac.il
Shai Kaspi
Affiliation:
School of Physics & Astronomy and the Wise Observatory The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel email: netzer@wise.tau.ac.il Physics Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel email: shai@wise.tau.ac.il
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Abstract

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We present an update of the monitoring campaign we have undertaken to probe the most massive black holes in powerful quasars at high redshift through the reverberation mapping technique. Once this campaign has finished, we will be able to directly measure broad line region (BLR) sizes of quasars at z ~ 2−3, improving dramatically the BLR size-luminosity relation, and therefore, black hole mass estimates based on this relationship. So far, we have identified a dozen highly variable sources suitable for future cross-correlation analysis and reverberation measurements.

Keywords

galaxies: high-redshiftquasars: generalquasars: emission lines
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 9 , Symposium S304: Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies , October 2013 , pp. 409 - 410
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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