Collaborative Research: Deciphering the Structure and Kinematics of Active Galactic Nuclei with Reverberation Mapping

合作研究：利用混响映射破译活动星系核的结构和运动学

• 批准号: 1107865
• 负责人: Tommaso Treu
• 金额: $ 5.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1107865&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Deciphering; Structure; Kinematics

The goal of this collaborative project is to continue an on-going and successful program of frequent monitoring of the variability in quasar continuum emission and the response of the characteristic broad emission lines to those variations. This provides a probe of the size of the emitting regions, their velocities via the line profiles, and allows an estimate of the mass of the central super-massive black hole. This "reverberation mapping" method is the primary way of measuring the masses of black holes in the central regions of active galaxies out to high redshifts.Broader impacts of the work include training of undergraduate and graduate students, and postdocs. Public outreach includes involvement in the COSMOS high school summer science teaching program.

这个合作项目的目标是继续一个正在进行的和成功的方案，经常监测类星体连续发射的变化和特征宽发射线对这些变化的响应。 这提供了一个探测器的发射区域的大小，他们的速度通过线的轮廓，并允许估计的质量中央超大质量黑洞。这种“反射映射”方法是测量活动星系中心区域黑洞质量的主要方法，直到高红移。这项工作的更广泛影响包括对本科生、研究生和博士后的培训。 公众宣传包括参与COSMOS高中暑期科学教学计划。