Biases in Virial Black Hole Masses: An SDSS Perspective

Yue Shen, Jenny E. Greene, Michael A. Strauss +2

We compile black hole (BH) masses for $\sim 60,000$ quasars in the redshift range $0.1\lesssim z\lesssim 4.5$ included in the Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (…