Modeling reverberation mapping data II: dynamical modeling of the Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2008 dataset

Abstract

We present dynamical modeling of the broad line region (BLR) for a sample of five Seyfert 1 galaxies using reverberation mapping data taken by the Lick AGN Monitoring Project in 2008. By modeling the AGN continuum light curve and H$\beta$ line profiles directly we are able to constrain the geometry and kinematics of the BLR and make a measurement of the black hole mass that does not depend upon the virial factor, $f$, needed in traditional reverberation mapping analysis. We find that the geometry of the BLR is generally a thick disk viewed close to face-on. While the H$\beta$ emission is found to come preferentially from the far side of the BLR, the mean size of the BLR is consistent with the lags measured with cross-correlation analysis. The BLR kinematics are found to be consistent with either inflowing motions or elliptical orbits, often with some combination of the two. We measure black hole masses of ${\log }_{10}(M_{\mathrm{BH}}/M_{\odot })=6.62_{-0.13}^{+0.10}$ for Arp 151, $7.42_{-0.27}^{+0.26}$ for Mrk 1310, $7.51_{-0.14}^{+0.23}$ for NGC 5548, $6.42_{-0.18}^{+0.24}$ for NGC 6814, and $6.99_{-0.25}^{+0.32}$ for SBS 1116+583A. The $f$ factors measured individually for each AGN are found to correlate with inclination angle, although not with $M_{\mathrm{BH}}$, $L_{5100}$, or FWHM/$\sigma$ of the emission line profile.

21 pages, 24 figures, 3 tables, Accepted for publication in MNRAS, corrected masses for NGC 5548 and NGC 6814 in the abstract

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