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  • The Sloan Digital Sky Surve...
    Shen, Yue; Grier, Catherine J.; Horne, Keith; Stone, Zachary; Li, Jennifer I.; Yang, Qian; Homayouni, Yasaman; Trump, Jonathan R.; Anderson, Scott F.; Brandt, W. N.; Hall, Patrick B.; Ho, Luis C.; Jiang, Linhua; Petitjean, Patrick; Schneider, Donald P.; Tao, Charling; Donnan, Fergus. R.; AlSayyad, Yusra; Bershady, Matthew A.; Blanton, Michael R.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Bundy, Kevin; Chen, Yuguang; Davis, Megan C.; Dawson, Kyle; Fan, Xiaohui; Greene, Jenny E.; Gröller, Hannes; Guo, Yucheng; Ibarra-Medel, Héctor; Jiang, Yuanzhe; Keenan, Ryan P.; Kollmeier, Juna A.; Lejoly, Cassandra; Li, Zefeng; de la Macorra, Axel; Moe, Maxwell; Nie, Jundan; Rossi, Graziano; Smith, Paul S.; Tee, Wei Leong; Weijmans, Anne-Marie; Xu, Jiachuan; Yue, Minghao; Zhou, Xu; Zhou, Zhimin; Zou, Hu

    The Astrophysical journal. Supplement series, 06/2024, Letnik: 272, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Abstract We present the final data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Reverberation Mapping (RM) project, a precursor to the SDSS-V Black Hole Mapper RM program. This data set includes 11 yr photometric and 7 yr spectroscopic light curves for 849 broad-line quasars over a redshift range of 0.1 < z < 4.5 and a luminosity range of L bol = 10 44−47.5 erg s −1 , along with spectral and variability measurements. We report 23, 81, 125, and 110 RM lags (relative to optical continuum variability) for broad H α , H β , Mg ii , and C iv using the SDSS-RM sample, spanning much of the luminosity and redshift ranges of the sample. Using 30 low-redshift RM active galactic nuclei with dynamical-modeling black hole masses, we derive a new estimate of the average virial factor of log f = 0.62 ± 0.07 for the line dispersion measured from the rms spectrum. The intrinsic scatter of individual virial factors is 0.31 ± 0.07 dex, indicating a factor of 2 systematic uncertainty in RM black hole masses. Our lag measurements reveal significant R – L relations for H β and Mg ii at high redshift, consistent with the latest measurements based on heterogeneous samples. While we are unable to robustly constrain the slope of the R – L relation for C iv given the limited dynamic range in luminosity, we found substantially larger scatter in C iv lags at fixed L 1350 . Using the SDSS-RM lag sample, we derive improved single-epoch (SE) mass recipes for H β , Mg ii , and C iv , which are consistent with their respective RM masses as well as between the SE recipes from two different lines, over the luminosity range probed by our sample. The new H β and Mg ii recipes are approximately unbiased estimators at given RM masses, but there are systematic biases in the C iv recipe. The intrinsic scatter of SE masses around RM masses is ∼0.45 dex for H β and Mg ii , increasing to ∼0.58 dex for C iv .