Reverberation Mapping of Nearby AGN with Medium-band and LSGT

  • Kim, Joonho (Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Im, Myungshin (Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Changsu (Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Hwang, Sungyong (Center for the Exploration of the Origin of the Universe (CEOU), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2020.10.13

Abstract

Reverberation mapping is one of the best ways to investigate the physical mechanism of broad-line regions around central supermassive black holes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). It is usually used to estimate the masses of supermassive black holes. Although spectroscopic reverberation mapping has used to study dozens of AGN, spectroscopic monitoring campaign of large sample is expansive. Here, we present results of photometric reverberation mapping with medium-band photometry. We monitored five nearby AGN which were already studied with H-alpha emission line. Observation has been performed for ~3 months with ~3 days cadence using three medium-band filters installed in LSGT (Lee Sang Gak Telescope; 0.43m). We found 0.01-0.08 magnitude variations from differential photometry. Also time-lags between continuum light-curves and H-alpha emission line light-curves are found using JAVELIN software. The result shows that our study and previous studies are consistent within uncertainty range. In the near future, medium-band photometric reverberation mapping seems useful to study large AGN samples. We will present preliminary result of following study that report new time lag measurement of six AGNs in the similar way.

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