Medium-band photometry RM of 5 nearby AGNs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kim J.
  2. Im M.
  3. Choi C.
  4. Hwang S.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Reverberation mapping (RM) is one of the most efficient ways to investigate the broad-line region around the central supermassive black holes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A common way of performing the RM is to perform a long term spectroscopic monitoring of AGNs, but the spectroscopic monitoring campaign of a large number of AGNs requires an extensive amount of observing time of medium to large size telescopes. As an alternative way, we present the results of photometric RM with medium-band photometry. As the widths of medium-band filters match well with the widths of AGN broad emission lines, the medium-band observation with small telescopes can be a cost-effective way to perform RM. We monitored five nearby AGNs with available spectroscopic RM results showing days to weeks scale variability. Observations were performed for ~3 months with an average of 3 days cadence using three medium-band filters on a 0.43m telescope. The time lags between the continuum and the H{alpha} emission line light curves are calculated using the JAVELIN software and the discrete correlation function. We find time lags of 1.5-15.9d for these AGNs, which are consistent with the time lags derived from previous spectroscopic RM measurements. This result demonstrates that even a 0.5m class telescope can perform RM with medium-bands. Furthermore, we show that RM for tens of thousands AGNs is possible with a dedicated 1m class telescope.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. h-alpha-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJ...884..103K
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2021-04-19T08:57:35Z
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2021-04-19T08:57:35Z
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