Supermassive black holes in BL Lacertae objects: Estimated masses and their relation to nuclear luminosity

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	Supermassive black holes in BL Lacertae objects: Estimated masses and their relation to nuclear luminosity
	Xie GZ(谢光中)1,2,3 ; Liang EW(梁恩维)1,2,4 ; Xie, ZH 5; Dai BZ(戴本忠)1,2 ; Xie, GZ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, Yunnan Observ, Kunming 650011, Peoples R China.
发表期刊	ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
	2002-05
卷号	123 期号:5 页码:2352-2357
DOI	10.1086/339974
产权排序	第1完成单位
收录类别	SCI
关键词	Bl Lacertae Objects : General Black Hole Physics Galaxies : Active Galaxies : Nuclei
摘要	We compile a sample of 13 BL Lac objects for which rapid optical variabilities are reliably established and luminosities of the nuclei and the host galaxies have been well observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We present a new method for estimating the masses of the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of these objects using the rapid optical variability, and find that the masses of the SMBHs range from 10(7.42) to 10(9.19) M(.). This mass range is quite similar to that of dark compact objects in galaxies. To further investigate the reliability of our method, we also compile another sample with nine high-energy gamma-ray emission sources of BL Lac objects and obtain the masses for the SMBHs in these objects using the Dermer & Gehrels method. We find that the masses derived from these two methods are quite similar. These results strongly imply that the estimation of masses of SMBHs by rapid optical variability is reliable. We examine the correlations of the masses with the luminosities of the nuclei and the host galaxies observed by HST, and find that the masses are significantly correlated with the luminosities of the nuclei, but not correlated with the luminosities of host galaxies at all. In addition, we examine the relation between the observed minimal time-scale of variation and the bolometric luminosities of the objects. We find that they obey the Abromowicz & Nobili relation. These results possibly imply that the luminosities of the nuclei are produced by accretion of the central SMBHs.
语种	英语
学科领域	Astronomy & Astrophysics
文章类型	Article
ISSN	0004-6256
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归档日期	2002-10-14
WOS记录号	WOS:000175311200014
WOS研究方向	Astronomy & Astrophysics
WOS类目	Astronomy & Astrophysics
关键词[WOS]	ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI ; RAY-LOUD BLAZARS ; HOST GALAXIES ; RADIO-SOURCES ; VARIABILITY ; QUASARS ; SEARCH ; MODEL
引用统计	被引频次：40[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ynao.ac.cn/handle/114a53/6950
专题	星系研究组
通讯作者	Xie, GZ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Natl Astron Observ, Yunnan Observ, Kunming 650011, Peoples R China.
作者单位	1.Yunnan Observatory, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011, China 2.Yunnan Astrophysics Center, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China 3.Yunnan Astrophysics Center, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming 650091, China 4.Physics Department, Guangxi University, Guangxi 530004, China 5.Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
第一作者单位	中国科学院云南天文台
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xie GZ,Liang EW,Xie, ZH,et al. Supermassive black holes in BL Lacertae objects: Estimated masses and their relation to nuclear luminosity[J]. ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL,2002,123(5):2352-2357.
APA	Xie GZ,Liang EW,Xie, ZH,Dai BZ,&Xie, GZ .(2002).Supermassive black holes in BL Lacertae objects: Estimated masses and their relation to nuclear luminosity.ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL,123(5),2352-2357.
MLA	Xie GZ,et al."Supermassive black holes in BL Lacertae objects: Estimated masses and their relation to nuclear luminosity".ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL 123.5(2002):2352-2357.

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