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2005PASJ...57..183X - Publ. Astron. Soc. Jap., 57, 183-186 (2005/February-0)

AGN black hole masses and methods to estimate the mass.

XIE G.-Z., CHEN L.-E., XIE Z.-H., MA L. and ZHOU S.-B.

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begin{HTML} The black hole mass, along with the ratio of the accretion rate to the Eddington accretion rate, is a fundamental parameter of active galactic nuclei. Using our new method to estimate the black hole mass, we developed our sample and estimated black hole masses, indicated by <i>M</i> <sub>H</sub> for 12 blazars. We compared 12 cases, for each of which the relevant black hole mass was also estimated by the <i>L</i><sub>5100</sub>-<i>R</i><sub>BLR</sub> relation or the <i>M</i> <sub>BH</sub>-s correlation method, which is indicated by <i>M</i><sub>s</sub>. We also found that (1) <i>M</i><sub>H</sub> values are systematically lower than <i>M</i><sub>s</sub>, but the differences between <i>M</i><sub>s</sub> and <i>M</i><sub>H</sub> are very small for most sources; (2) there is a significant correlation between <i>M</i><sub>s</sub> and <i>M</i><sub>H</sub>, the correlation coefficient being <i>r</i> = 0.66 with a chance probability of <i>p</i> ∼ 1.9 x 10<sup>-2</sup>. Based on these properties mentioned above, we have shown that the small systematical difference between <i>M</i><sub>s</sub> and <i>M</i><sub>H</sub> is probably due to some systematic errors in our method.

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Journal keyword(s): active galactic nuclei - - black hole physics - - galaxies: fundamental parameters

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