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High-Redshift Quasar Monitoring Campaign: Preliminary Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2010

Ismael Botti ,
Paulina Lira ,
Hagai Netzer  and
Shai Kaspi
Ismael Botti
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile Email: ibotti@das.uchile.cl, plira@das.uchile.cl
Paulina Lira
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile Email: ibotti@das.uchile.cl, plira@das.uchile.cl
Hagai Netzer
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Email: netzer@wise.tau.ac.il, shai@wise.tau.ac.il
Shai Kaspi
Affiliation:
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Email: netzer@wise.tau.ac.il, shai@wise.tau.ac.il
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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.

Keywords

galaxies: high-redshiftgalaxies: photometryquasars: emission lines
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S267: Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies , August 2009 , pp. 198
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

References

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