Host Galaxies of Reverberation-Mapped AGNs

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Jul 2003

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HST Proposal ID #9851

Physics

Hst Proposal Id #9851 Agn/Quasars

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We propose to obtain unsaturated ACS high-resolution images of all reverberation-mapped active galactic nuclei in order to remove the point-like nuclear light from each image, thus yielding a "nucleus-free" image of the host galaxy. This will allow investigation of host-galaxy properties: our particular interest is determination of the host-galaxy starlight contribution to the reverberation mapping observations, which is necessary for accurate determination of the relationship between the AGN continuum flux and the size of the broad Balmer-line emitting region of AGNs. Because this relationship is used to estimate black-hole masses of large samples of distant AGNs, correct determination of the slope of this relationship is critically important.

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