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    Grier, C. J.; Shen, Yue; Horne, Keith; Brandt, W. N.; Trump, J. R.; Hall, P. B.; Kinemuchi, K.; Starkey, David; Schneider, D. P.; Ho, Luis C.; Homayouni, Y.; Li, Jennifer I-Hsiu; McGreer, Ian D.; Peterson, B. M.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Chen, Yuguang; Dawson, K. S.; Eftekharzadeh, Sarah; Guo, Yucheng; Jia, Siyao; Jiang, Linhua; Kneib, Jean-Paul; Li, Feng; Li, Zefeng; Nie, Jundan; Oravetz, Audrey; Oravetz, Daniel; Pan, Kaike; Petitjean, Patrick; Ponder, Kara A.; Rogerson, Jesse; Vivek, M.; Zhang, Tianmeng; Zou, Hu

    The Astrophysical journal, 12/2019, Letnik: 887, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    We present reverberation-mapping (RM) lags and black hole mass measurements using the C ivλ1549 broad emission line from a sample of 348 quasars monitored as a part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey RM Project. Our data span four years of spectroscopic and photometric monitoring for a total baseline of 1300 days, allowing us to measure lags up to ∼750 days in the observed frame (this corresponds to a rest-frame lag of ∼300 days in a quasar at z = 1.5 and ∼190 days at z = 3). We report significant time delays between the continuum and the C ivλ1549 emission line in 48 quasars, with an estimated false-positive detection rate of 10%. Our analysis of marginal lag measurements indicates that there are on the order of ∼100 additional lags that should be recoverable by adding more years of data from the program. We use our measurements to calculate black hole masses and fit an updated C iv radius-luminosity relationship. Our results significantly increase the sample of quasars with C iv RM results, with the quasars spanning two orders of magnitude in luminosity toward the high-luminosity end of the C iv radius-luminosity relation. In addition, these quasars are located at some of the highest redshifts (z 1.4-2.8) of quasars with black hole masses measured with RM. This work constitutes the first large sample of C iv RM measurements in more than a dozen quasars, demonstrating the utility of multiobject RM campaigns.