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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping Project: Improving Lag Detection with an Extended Multiyear Baseline

Shen, Yue
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Grier, C. J.
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Horne, Keith
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September 20, 2019
The Astrophysical Journal Letters

We investigate the effects of extended multiyear light curves (9 yr photometry and 5 yr spectroscopy) on the detection of time lags between the continuum variability and broad-line response of quasars at z greater than or similar to 1.5, and compare with the results using 4 yr photometry+spectroscopy presented in a companion paper. We demonstrate the benefits of the extended light curves in three cases: (1) lags that are too long to be detected by the shorter-duration data but can be detected with the extended data; (2) lags that are recovered by the extended light curves but are missed in the shorter-duration data due to insufficient light-curve quality; and (3) lags for different broad-line species in the same object. These examples demonstrate the importance of long-term monitoring for reverberation mapping to detect lags for luminous quasars at high redshift, and the expected performance of the final data set from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Reverberation Mapping project that will have 11 yr photometric and 7 yr spectroscopic baselines.

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research article
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/ab3e0f
Web of Science ID

WOS:000487135700003

Author(s)
Shen, Yue
Grier, C. J.
Horne, Keith
Brandt, W. N.
Trump, J. R.
Hall, P. B.
Kinemuchi, K.
Starkey, David
Schneider, D. P.
Ho, Luis C.
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Date Issued

2019-09-20

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Volume

883

Issue

1

Start page

L14

Subjects

Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

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black-hole

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region

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mass

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quasars

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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October 6, 2019
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