Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-09-27
Astron.Lett.35:287-293,2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Astron. Letters. 5 pages, 1 figure Minor corrections made and some additional references and discussion added
Scientific paper
10.1134/S1063773709050016
The first set of supermassive black hole mass estimates, published from 1980 to 1984 by E. A. Dibai, are shown to be in excellent agreement with recent reverberation-mapping estimates. Comparison of the masses of 17 AGNs covering a mass range from about 10^6 to 10^9 solar masses shows that the Dibai mass estimates agree with reverberation-mapping mass estimates to significantly better than 0.3 dex and were, on average, only 0.14 dex (~ 40%) systematically lower than masses obtained from reverberation mapping. This surprising agreement with the results of over a quarter of a century ago has important implication for the structure and kinematics of AGNs and implies that AGNs are very similar. Our results give strong support to the use of the single-epoch-spectrum (Dibai) method for investigating the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies.
Bochkarev Nikolai G.
Gaskell Martin C.
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