Speaker
Dr
Bradley Peterson
(STScI / Ohio State Univ.)
Description
Reverberation mapping is the principal method for determining the masses of the central black holes that power AGNs. I will discuss recent reverberation mapping results in the context of how these affect our understanding of narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. I will argue that NLS1s are,for the most part, the low-luminosity extremes of a class of objects that should be defined by accretion rate rather than simply by line width.
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Primary authors
Dr
Bradley Peterson
(STScI / Ohio State Univ.)
Dr
Elena Dalla Bontà
(Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "G. Galilei," Università di Padova / INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)
