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astro-ph2002
Masses of Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Bradley M. Peterson
We present a progress report on a project whose goal is to improve both the precision and accuracy of everberation-based black-hole masses. Reverberation masses appear to be accura…
astro-ph2002
The Structure and Energetics of Active Galactic Nuclei
Bradley M. Peterson
The black-hole/accretion-disk paradigm for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is now reasonably secure, but there are still important unresolved issues, some of which will require the c…
astro-ph2002
Observational Requirements for High-Fidelity Reverberation Mapping
Keith Horne, Bradley M. Peterson, Stefan J. Collier +1
We present a series of simulations to demonstrate that high-fidelity velocity-delay maps of the emission-line regions in active galactic nuclei can be obtained from time-resolved s…