BASS. XXV. DR2 AGNs BH mass estimates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Mejia-Restrepo J.E.
  2. Trakhtenbrot B.
  3. Koss M.J.
  4. Oh K.
  5. den Brok J.,Stern D.
  6. Powell M.C.
  7. Ricci F.
  8. Caglar T.
  9. Ricci C.
  10. Bauer F.E.,Treister E.
  11. Harrison F.A.
  12. Urry C.M.
  13. Ananna T.T.
  14. Asmus D.
  15. Assef R.J.,Bar R.E.
  16. Bessiere P.S.
  17. Burtscher L.
  18. Ichikawa K.
  19. Kakkad D.
  20. Kamraj N.,Mushotzky R.
  21. Privon G.C.
  22. Rojas A.F.
  23. Sani E.
  24. Schawinski K.
  25. Veilleux S.
  26. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present measurements of broad emission lines and virial estimates of supermassive black hole masses (M_BH_) for a large sample of ultrahard X-ray-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs) as part of the second data release of the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS/DR2). Our catalog includes M_BH_ estimates for a total of 689 AGNs, determined from the H{alpha}, H{beta}, MgII{lambda}2798, and/or CIV{lambda}1549 broad emission lines. The core sample includes a total of 512 AGNs drawn from the 70 month Swift/BAT all-sky catalog. We also provide measurements for 177 additional AGNs that are drawn from deeper Swift/BAT survey data. We study the links between MBH estimates and line-of-sight obscuration measured from X-ray spectral analysis. We find that broad H{alpha} emission lines in obscured AGNs (log(N_H_/cm^-2^)>22.0) are on average a factor of 8.0_-2.4_^+4.1^ weaker relative to ultrahard X-ray emission and about 35_-12_^+7^% narrower than those in unobscured sources (i.e., log(N_H_/cm^-2^)<21.5). This indicates that the innermost part of the broad-line region is preferentially absorbed. Consequently, current single-epoch M_BH_ prescriptions result in severely underestimated (>1dex) masses for Type 1.9 sources (AGNs with broad H{alpha} but no broad H{beta}) and/or sources with log(N_H_/cm^-2^)>~22.0. We provide simple multiplicative corrections for the observed luminosity and width of the broad H{alpha} component (L[bH{alpha}] and FWHM[bH{alpha}]) in such sources to account for this effect and to (partially) remedy MBH estimates for Type 1.9 objects. As a key ingredient of BASS/DR2, our work provides the community with the data needed to further study powerful AGNs in the low-redshift universe.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. black-holes
  3. redshifted
  4. line-intensities
  5. spectroscopy
  6. surveys
  7. x-ray-sources
  8. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022ApJS..261....5M
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2022-10-04T10:51:25Z
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