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most citedEstimating Masses of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei from the Halpha Emission Line

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astro-ph.GA2026

AGN STORM 2. XII. Ground-Based Optical Photometry and Lag Measurements of Mrk 817

John W. Montano, Aaron J. Barth, Keith Horne +40

We present the ground-based imaging campaign and light curves of Markarian 817 as part of the multiwavelength monitoring program AGN STORM\,2. Observations were carried out over 1.…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Intensive X-ray/UVOIR continuum reverberation mapping of the Seyfert AGN MCG+08-11-11

D. Kynoch, I. M. McHardy, E. M. Cackett +11

We present results from intensive (x3 daily), three-month-long X-ray, UV and optical monitoring of the bright Seyfert active galactic nucleus (AGN) MCG+08-11-11 with Swift, support…

astro-ph.GA2025

AGN STORM 2. XI. Spectroscopic reverberation mapping of the hot dust in Mrk 817

Hermine Landt, Benjamin D. Boizelle, Michael S. Brotherton +41

The AGN Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping 2 (STORM 2) campaign targeted Mrk 817 with intensive multi-wavelength monitoring and found its soft X-ray emission to be s…

astro-ph.GA2025

Departures from Standard Disk Predictions in Intensive Ground-Based Monitoring of Three AGN

Diego Gonzalez-Buitrago, Aaron J. Barth, Rick Edelson +42

We present ground-based, multi-band light curves of the AGN Mrk~509, NGC\,4151, and NGC\,4593 obtained contemporaneously with \sw\, monitoring. We measure cross-correlation lags re…

astro-ph.GA2025

Continuum Reverberation Mapping of Accretion Disks Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: Observational Signatures

Yi-Xin Fu, Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang +9

It has remained challenging to reliably identify sub-parsec supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), despite them being expected to be ubiquitous. We propose a new method using m…

astro-ph.GA2025

Echo mapping of the black hole accretion flow in NGC 7469

Raj Prince, Juan V. Hernández Santisteban, Keith Horne +20

Reverberation mapping (RM) can measure black hole accretion disc sizes and radial structure through observed time lags that should increase with wavelength as . Ou…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 15 cited

Estimating Masses of Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei from the Halpha Emission Line

E. Dalla Bontà, B. M. Peterson, C. J. Grier +19

The goal of this project is to construct an estimator for the masses of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on the broad Halpha emission line. We make u…