The AGN Black Hole Mass Database

By M. Bentz, Sarah Katz. 2014

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The AGN Black Hole Mass Database is a compilation of all published spectroscopic reverberation-mapping studies of active galaxies. We have created a public Web interface where users may get the most up-to-date black hole masses from reverberation mapping for any particular active galactic nucleus (AGN), as well as obtain the individual measurements upon which the masses are based and the appropriate references. While the database currently focuses on the measurements necessary for black hole mass determinations, we also plan to expand it in the future to include additional useful information, such as host-galaxy characteristics. New reverberation mapping results will also be incorporated into the database as they are published in peer-refereed journals.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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Citations in the corpus

• RELATIONS BETWEEN CENTRAL BLACK HOLE MASS AND TOTAL GALAXY STELLAR MASS IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE (2015, methodology): “We first crossmatch the AGN Black Hole Mass Database with the NSA and find 19 matches.”
• The cosmic evolution of massive black holes in the Horizon-AGN simulation (2016, methodology): “…of local BHs with dynamical mass measurements (Kormendy & Ho 2013), and also include BHs in AGN with mass measured through reverberation mapping (Bentz & Katz 2015), as well as a sample of broad-line AGNs with single-epoch BH mass estimates selected from the NASA-Sloan Atlas, which is based on…”
• A global look at X-ray time lags in seyfert galaxies (2016, methodology): “They were collected from the public web database described in Bentz & Katz (2015) using the default < f > value of 4.3 from ?.”
• The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Hα and Hβ Reverberation Measurements from First-year Spectroscopy and Photometry (2017, methodology): “Both the SDSS-RM and SEAMBH quasars lie at the mid-to-high-luminosity end of the L distribution of the Bentz & Katz (2015) sample of RM quasars, and it is possible that luminous quasars have different BLR radii than expected from the R−L relation established from low-luminosity AGN.”