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A search of new samples of active galactic nuclei with low-mass black holes from SDSS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2016

H. Liu ,
W. Yuan ,
H. Zhou  and
X.-B. Dong
H. Liu
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China email: liuheyang@nao.cas.cn
W. Yuan
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100012, China email: liuheyang@nao.cas.cn
H. Zhou
Affiliation:
Polar Research Institute of China, Jingqiao Road 451, Shanghai, 200136, China The University of Sciences and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China
X.-B. Dong
Affiliation:
Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650011, China
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Abstract

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We report on the progress of our on-going work to search for low-mass black holes (LMBHs) in active galactic nuclei. The masses of black holes are estimated using the broad line width and luminosity obtained from one-epoch optical spectra. As the first step, we fitted the spectra of 1263 objects in the quasar catalog of the SDSS DR10 and obtained accurate measurement of the emission lines. Two AGNs are found to have MBH ~ 106 M⊙. The next step is to analyze the spectra of the DR10 galaxy sample, from which a much larger sample of low-mass AGNs is expected to be obtained.

Keywords

galaxies: activegalaxies: nucleiquasars: emission line
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 10 , Issue S312: Star Clusters and Black Holes in Galaxies across Cosmic Time , August 2014 , pp. 75 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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