[PDF] Top 20 The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project : accretion and broad emission line physics from a hypervariable quasar

... the Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV has been provided by the Alfred ...P. Sloan Foundation, the ...resources from the Center for High-Performance Computing at the University of ... See full document

... and broad-line width measure- ments to determine which width de fi nition produces the tightest correlation between the virial product and the stellar velocity dispersion, and ( 2 ) a large sample of quasars ... See full document

... data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project (SDSS-RM; Shen et ...SDSS-RM project is an ongoing reverberation-mapping ... See full document

... narrow emission lines cannot be used for redshifts, the broad emission lines are ...rst from fundamental dif fi culties with either the speci fi c transition or data quality ( or both ) ...The ... See full document

... composite broad-line region (BLR) reverberation-mapping lag measurements for Hα, Hβ, He II λ4686 and Mg II for a sample of 144, z ...quasars from the Sloan Digital ... See full document

... the emission-line light curves as scaled, shifted, and smoothed versions of the continuum light ...of quasar variability within the time regime rel- evant to our study ...different emission ... See full document

... the broad  line used for the lag detection. Col ( 6 ) : broad-line dispersion ( second moment ) for the line speci fi ed in ...lag from the centroid of the CCF ...observed ... See full document

... between broad-line and continuum variations in reverberation mapping data using simulated light curves that probe a range of cadence, time baseline, and signal-to-noise ratio in the fl ux ... See full document

... the Sloan Digital Sky Survey RM Project ( SDSS-RM; Shen et ...Spectroscopic Survey ( BOSS; Eisenstein et ... emission lines for quasars over a wide range of redshifts; ... See full document

... on broad-line quasar samples, where the BH mass can be estimated using the properties of the broad lines, instead of spatially resolved gas or stellar ...resulting from uncertainties in ... See full document

... support from NSF grant ...support from Peking University, the Kavli Foundation, the Chinese Academy of Science through grant ...) from the Strategic Priority Research Program, and the National ... See full document

... 0.8 Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York et ...the accretion process of quasars ...general broad-line quasar population (Shen et ...expectation from the ... See full document

... of emission lines, as well as improving the established radius – luminosity ( R-L ) relation ( Kaspi et ...this survey, coordinated monitoring by different SDSS-RM photometry sites is essential to monitor ... See full document

... the quasar sample used in M10 consists of luminous quasars ( M i < - 23 ) while a signi fi cant fraction of quasars in our sample are less luminous ( M i > - 23 ) ... See full document

... 849 broad-line quasars over a redshift range of ...Spectroscopic Survey ( BOSS; Dawson et ...BOSS quasar survey combines optical color selection with a variety of ancillary target ... See full document

... extracted from Sloan Digital Sky Survey optical imaging data (SDSS: York et ...drawn from about 7500 square degrees of sky, ... See full document

... From SDSS-II through SDSS-V, the facilities have been allocated in three- to six-year increments and dedicated to a small number of major survey programs. Planning for each phase typically has begun two to ... See full document

... the quasar host galaxies based on the host galaxy spectra obtained in our spectroscopic ...galaxies from the COSMOS / UltraVISTA K-selected galaxy catalog ( Muzzin et ...our quasar host galaxies ... See full document

... with digital computers and the mathematical framework of Bayesian statistics for cosmological data ...interesting physics ranging from quantum field theory, general relativity to the dynamics of ... See full document

... star evolution represents an important part of studying stellar evolution. While the majority of wide main sequence (MS) binaries evolve as if they were single stars and never interact, a small fraction are believed to ... See full document