Black hole mass estimate for a sample of radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies

Dec, 2012
32 pages
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  • Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 431 (2013) 210
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We discuss the relationship between a standard Shakura & Sunyaev (1973) accretion disk model and the Big Blue Bump (BBB) observed in Type 1 AGN, and propose a new method to estimate black hole masses. We apply this method to a sample of 23 radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (RL-NLS1) galaxies, using data from WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey) and GALEX. Our black hole mass estimates are at least a factor \sim6 above previous results based on single epoch virial methods, while the Eddington ratios are correspondingly lower. Hence, the black hole masses of RL-NLS1 galaxies are typically above 10^8 M_{\sun}, in agreement with the typical black hole mass of blazars.
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  • 32 pages, 11 figures, MNRAS submitted