The Radius-Luminosity Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei: The Effect of Host-Galaxy Starlight on Luminosity Measurements
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...…in the catalog are less susceptible to host galaxy contamination than are fixed-aperture measurements, the nucleus of the host galaxy can still contribute appreciably to this measurement for the lowest luminosity entries in the catalog (e.g., Hao et al. 2005, Bentz et al. 2006, Croom et al. 2009)....
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...A preliminary study by Bentz et al. (2006a) presented two-dimensional fits to high-resolutionHST images of 14 reverberation-mapped AGNs, from which the host-galaxy contribution was determined....
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...Indeed, our decision to revisit the Bentz et al. (2006a) fits was motivated at least in part by such considerations....
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...…residuals andχ2 values from the new fits, combined with the results of the consistency checks, lead us to believe that the galaxy fits in this work more accurately describe the underlying host-galaxy surface brightness ditributions than the simplistic fits determined by Bentz et al. (2006a)....
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...However, we improve upon the results presented by Bentz et al. (2006a) in that we employed the more general Sérsic function for modeling bulges and we allow for additional parameters to describe other surface brightness components (such as a bar or inner bulge component)....
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...The triangles are the new equivalent width measurements for the same emission line fluxes, but in this case the continuum measurements have been adjusted by the hostgalaxy value from Bentz et al. (2006a)....
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...Changes in these virial relations (e.g., a different slope in theR− L relation, etc., see Bentz et al. 2006; Netzer et al. 2007) will certainly change the values of our model parameters....
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...…the most recent calibrations available (McLure & Dunlop 2004; Vestergaard & Peterson 2006), it is quite likely that those calibrations will change when the updatedR− L relation and virial coefficient (zero-point offset) are incorporated (Onken et al. 2004; Bentz et al. 2006; Kaspi et al. 2007)....
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...Current reverberation mapping data indicate a scatter of∼ 0.2− 0.35 dex in luminosity at fixed BLR size (e.g., Kaspi et al. 2005; Bentz et al. 2006)....
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...Following Kaspi et al. (2005), we corrected for galactic absorption using the Schlegel et al. (1998) E(B − V ) values listed in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) and the extinction curve of Cardelli et al. (1989), adjusted to AV /E(B − V ) = 3.1....
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...Following Kaspi et al. (2005), we corrected for galactic absorption using the Schlegel et al. (1998) E(B − V ) values listed in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) and the extinction curve of Cardelli et al. (1989), adjusted to AV /E(B − V ) = 3.1....
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...The generalized least-squares method of Jefferys (1980, 1981) implemented by GaussFit has the virtue of directly addressing the explicit nonlinearity of the problem of fitting lines through data with errors in both variables, whereas BCES and FITEXY use iterative linear approximations to estimate the best-fit parameters....
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...FITEXY (Press et al. 1992), which estimates the parameters of a straight-line fit through the data including errors in both coordinates....
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...FITEXY numerically solves for the minimum orthogonal χ2 using an interative root-finding algorithm....
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