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

这个合作项目的目标是继续进行一个正在进行的和成功的项目，频繁监测类星体连续发射的变异性和特征宽发射线对这些变化的响应。这提供了一个探测发射区域的大小，它们通过谱线的速度，并允许估计中心超大质量黑洞的质量。这种“混响映射”方法是测量活动星系中心区域的黑洞质量到高红移的主要方法。这项工作更广泛的影响包括培养本科生、研究生和博士后。公众推广活动包括参与COSMOS高中暑期科学教学计划。

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.