Prospects for Observing Quasars and AGN with the Space Interferometry Mission

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Jan 2009

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #456.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.356

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The new design for the Space Interferometry Mission, "SIM Lite", can easily reach astrometric accuracy of a few microarcseconds on dozens of AGN. We will be able to measure internal motions of parsec-scale jets in M87, 3C273, 3C454.3, and many other active galaxies and quasars. SIM Lite's single measurement precision for 16th-17th magnitude quasars will exceed Gaia's by a factor of 10-20, and its end of mission precision will be 6-10 times better than Gaia's end of mission precision. We describe how SIM Lite can tackle topics such as the triggering of relativistic jets, the search for binary black holes, and the cause of the radio-loud/radio-quiet dichotomy. SIM Lite can also elucidate the distribution of clouds in the Broad Line Region, thus removing the factor of 2-3 geometric uncertainty in reverberation-based masses of the central supermassive black hole. Precise masses are fundamental to understanding the origin of the relationship between black hole mass and velocity dispersion that revolutionized our understanding of black hole-galaxy co-evolution.
NASA's Space Interferometry Mission supports the AGN Key Project led by Ann Wehrle and the Reference Frame Physics Key Project led by Ken Johnston.

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