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- Title
Measuring supermassive black holes via reverberation mapping in the UV.
- Authors
Kaspi, Shai
- Abstract
Over the past three decades the reverberation mapping technique was used to measure the central regions of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), their size, velocity field, and the mass of the black hole in the center. This technique was used mainly in the optical with several studies in the UV. Reverberation mapping in the UV adds essential information to the AGN studies. This paper reviews these recent studies done in the UV, presents results from the recent HST campaign toward NGC 5548, and discuss two projects of reverberation mapping of UV emission lines in high-luminosity quasars. The advantages of reverberation mapping in the UV will be discussed as well as the needs from new UV missions in order to be able to advance UV reverberation mapping campaigns.
- Subjects
ACTIVE galactic nuclei; ACTIVE galaxies; REVERBERATION time; BLACK holes; ULTRAVIOLET astronomy
- Publication
Astrophysics & Space Science, 2018, Vol 363, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0004-640X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10509-018-3305-2