Abstract
Black hole mass measurements outside the local Universe are critically important to derive the growth of supermassive black holes over cosmic time, and to study the interplay between black hole growth and galaxy evolution. In this paper, we present two measurements of supermassive black hole masses from reverberation mapping (RM) of the broad C iv emission line. These measurements are based on multiyear photometry and spectroscopy from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN) and the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES), which together constitute the OzDES RM Program. The observed reverberation lag between the DES continuum photometry and the OzDES emission line fluxes is measured to be $358{+126}-{-123}$ and $343{+58}-{-84}$ d for two quasars at redshifts of 1.905 and 2.593, respectively. The corresponding masses of the two supermassive black holes are 4.4 × 10 and 3.3 × 10 M , which are among the highest redshift and highest mass black holes measured to date with RM studies. We use these new measurements to better determine the C iv radius-luminosity relationship for high-luminosity quasars, which is fundamental to many quasar black hole mass estimates and demographic studies.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3650-3663 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Volume | 487 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 11 2019 |
Funding
Funding for the DES Projects has been provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Ministry of Science and Education of Spain, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago, the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics at the Ohio State University, the Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Fundac¸ão Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico and the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovac¸ão, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey. This research was funded partially by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council through project DP160100930. PM and ZY were supported in part by the United States National Science Foundation under grant no. 161553. The DES data management system is supported by the National Science Foundation under grant numbers AST-1138766 and AST-1536171. The DES participants from Spanish institutions are partially supported by MINECO under grants AYA2015-71825, ESP2015-66861, FPA2015-68048, SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, and MDM-2015-0509, some of which include ERDF funds from the European Union. IFAE is partially funded by the CERCA program of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) including ERC grant agreements 240672, 291329, and 306478. We acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAAS-TRO), through project number CE110001020, and the Brazilian Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia (INCT) e-Universe (CNPq grant 465376/2014-2). This manuscript has been authored by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359 with the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.
Funders | Funder number |
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Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics | |
CAAS-TRO | CE110001020 |
Collaborating Institutions in the Dark Energy Survey | |
European Union’s Seventh Framework Program | |
FP7/2007 | |
Fermi Research Alliance, LLC | DE-AC02-07CH11359 |
INCT | |
Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago | |
Ministry of Science and Education of Spain | |
Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University | |
National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
U.S. National Science Foundation | |
National Science Foundation | 1138766, AST-1138766, 161553, AST-1536171 |
U.S. Department of Energy | |
Office of Science | |
High Energy Physics | |
Seventh Framework Programme | 240672, 306478, 291329 |
Higher Education Funding Council for England | |
Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Ohio State University | |
Australian Government | |
Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia Midas | |
Science and Technology Facilities Council | |
European Commission | |
European Research Council | |
Australian Research Council | DP160100930 |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | |
Generalitat de Catalunya | |
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad | SEV-2016-0588, SEV-2016-0597, ESP2015-66861, MDM-2015-0509, FPA2015-68048, AYA2015-71825 |
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | 465376/2014-2 |
Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro | |
Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos | |
Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia | |
European Regional Development Fund |
Keywords
- accretion
- accretion discs
- black hole physics
- galaxies: evolution
- quasars: emission lines