Estimate black hole masses of AGNs using ultraviolet emission line properties

Details Estimate black hole masses of AGNs using ultraviolet emission line properties Estimate black hole masses of AGNs using ultraviolet emission line properties

2005-12-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0512609v1

Chin.J.Astron.Astrophys.6:396-410,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1009-9271/6/4/02

Based on the measured sizes of broad line region of the reverberation-mapping AGN sample, two new empirical relations are introduced to estimate the central black hole masses of radio-loud high-redshift ($z > 0.5$) AGNs. First, using the archival $IUE/HST$ spectroscopy data at UV band for the reverberation-mapping objects, we obtained two new empirical relations between the BLR size and \Mg/\C emission line luminosity. Secondly, using the newly determined black hole masses of the reverberation-mapping sample for calibration, two new relationships for determination of black hole mass with the full width of half maximum and the luminosity of \Mg/\C line are also found. We then apply the relations to estimate the black hole masses of AGNs in Large Bright Quasar Surveyq and a sample of radio-loud quasars. For the objects with small radio-loudness, the black hole mass estimated using the $R_{\rm BLR} - L_{\eMg/\eC}$ relation is consistent with that from the $R_{BLR} - L_{3000\AA/1350 \AA}$ relation. But for radio-loud AGNs, the mass estimated from the $R_{BLR} - L_{\eMg/\eC}$ relation is systematically lower than that from the continuum luminosity $L_{3000\AA/1350\AA}$. Because jets could have significant contributions to the UV/optical continuum luminosity of radio-loud AGNs, we emphasized again that for radio-loud AGNs, the emission line luminosity may be a better tracer of the ionizing luminosity than the continuum luminosity, so that the relations between the BLR size and UV emission line luminosity should be used to estimate the black hole masses of high redshift radio-loud AGNs.

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