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: 1108665
• 负责人: Alexei Filippenko
• 金额: $ 6.63万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1108665&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.

这个协作项目的目的是继续进行一项持续而成功的计划，以频繁监控类星体连续排放的可变性以及特征性广泛排放线对这些变化的响应。 这提供了探测发射区域的大小，通过线轮廓的速度，并允许估计中央超质量黑洞的质量。这种“混响映射”方法是测量活跃星系中央区域的黑洞质量到高红移的主要方法。工作的影响包括对本科生和研究生的培训，以及博士后。 公共宣传包括参与Cosmos高中夏季科学教学计划。