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High-Redshift Quasar Monitoring Campaign: Preliminary Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2010

Ismael Botti
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Paulina Lira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Hagai Netzer
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Shai Kaspi
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Email: [email protected], [email protected]
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Abstract

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We present a monitoring campaign on high-luminosity quasars which will extend the existing reverberation mapping results by two orders of magnitude in luminosity, probing the broad-line region size and black hole mass of luminous AGN at redshift ~ 2 – 3.

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Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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