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Evidence for Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei from Emission-Line Reverberation
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Emission-line variability data for Seyfert 1 galaxies provide strong evidence for the existence of supermassive black holes in the nuclei of these galaxies and that the line-emitting gas is moving in the gravitational potential of that black hole. The time-delayed response of the emission lines to continuum variations is used to infer the size of the line-emitting region, which is then combined with measurements of the Doppler widths of the variable line components to estimate a virial mass. In the case of the best-studied galaxy, NGC 5548, various emission lines spanning an order of magnitude in distance from the central source show the expected V ∝ r -1/2 correlation between distance and line width and are thus consistent with a single value for the mass. Two other Seyfert galaxies, NGC 7469 and 3C 390.3, show a similar relationship. We compute the ratio of luminosity to mass for these three objects and the narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 and find that the gravitational force on the line-emitting gas is much stronger than radiation pressure. These results strongly support the paradigm of gravitationally bound broad emission line region clouds.
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- Peterson, B. M., & Wandel, A.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
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- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2000-09-01
- Volume
- 540
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- L13-L16
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
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- W2027435598
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- 296
- References
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- FWCI
- 13.59
- Type
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- Language
- en
- Open access
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