Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/340855
The limits on the mass of the black hole in 23 BL Lac objects are obtained from their luminosities of the broad emission line H\beta on the assumption that broad emission lines are emitted from clouds ionized by the radiation of the accretion disk surrounding a black hole. The distribution of line luminosity L_{H\beta} of all these BL Lac objects suggests a bimodal nature, although this cannot be statistically proven on the basis of the present, rather small sample. We found that standard thin disks are probably in the sources with L_{H\beta}>10^{41} erg s^{-1}. The central black holes in these sources have masses of 10^{8-10} M_\odot, if the matter is accreting at the rate of 0.025 {\dot M}_{\rm Edd}. For the sources with L_{H\beta}<10^{41} erg s^{-1}, the accretion flows have transited from standard thin disk type to the ADAF type. The lower limits on the mass of the black hole in these sources are in the range of 1.66-24.5\times 10^{8} M_\odot. The results support the evolutionary sequence of blazars: FSRQ\to LBL\to HBL.
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