SDSS-RM project: MgII lags from 4yrs monitoring Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Homayouni Y.
  2. Trump J.R.
  3. Grier C.J.
  4. Horne K.
  5. Shen Y.
  6. Brandt W.N.,Dawson K.S.
  7. Fonseca Alvarez G.
  8. Green P.J.
  9. Hall P.B.,Hernandez Santisteban J.V.
  10. Ho L.C.
  11. Kinemuchi K.
  12. Kochanek C.S.,Li J.I.-H.
  13. Peterson B.M.
  14. Schneider D.P.
  15. Starkey D.A.
  16. Bizyaev D.,Pan K.
  17. Oravetz D.
  18. Simmons A.
  19. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present reverberation mapping results for the MgII{lambda}2800{AA} broad emission line in a sample of 193 quasars at 0.35<z<1.7 with photometric and spectroscopic monitoring observations from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project during 2014-2017. We find significant time lags between the MgII and continuum lightcurves for 57 quasars, and define a "gold sample" of 24 quasars with the most reliable lag measurements. We estimate false-positive rates for each lag that range from 1% to 24%, with an average false-positive rate of 11% for the full sample and 8% for the gold sample. There are an additional ~40 quasars with marginal MgII lag detections, which may yield reliable lags after additional years of monitoring. The MgII lags follow a radius-luminosity relation with a best-fit slope that is consistent with {alpha}=0.5, but with an intrinsic scatter of 0.36dex that is significantly larger than found for the H{beta} radius-luminosity relation. For targets with SDSS-RM lag measurements of other emission lines, we find that our MgII lags are similar to the H{beta} lags and ~2-3 times larger than the CIV lags. This work significantly increases the number of MgII broad-line lags and provides additional reverberation-mapped black hole masses, filling the redshift gap at the peak of supermassive black hole growth between the H{beta} and CIV emission lines in optical spectroscopy.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. redshifted
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2020ApJ...901...55H
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19010055

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2022-02-17T12:25:09Z
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