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SWIFT/UVOT GRISM MONITORING OF NGC 5548 IN 2013: AN ATTEMPT AT Mg ii REVERBERATION MAPPING by Cackett, E. M., Gültekin, K., Bentz, M. C., Fausnaugh, M. M., Peterson, B. M., Troyer, J., Vestergaard, M.

“…ABSTRACT Reverberation-mapping-based scaling relations are often used to estimate the masses of black holes from single-epoch spectra of active galactic nuclei…”
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Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XI. Disk-wind Characteristics and Contributions to the Very Broad Emission Lines of NGC 5548 by Dehghanian, M., Ferland, G. J., Kriss, G. A., Peterson, B. M., Korista, K. T., Goad, M. R., Chatzikos, M., Guzmán, F., Rosa, G. De, Mehdipour, M., Kaastra, J., Mathur, S., Vestergaard, M., Proga, D., Waters, T., Bentz, M. C., Bisogni, S., Brandt, W. N., Bontà, E. Dalla, Fausnaugh, M. M., Gelbord, J. M., Horne, Keith, McHardy, I. M., Pogge, R. W., Starkey, D. A.

“…In 2014 the NGC 5548 Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping campaign discovered a two-month anomaly when variations in the absorption and emission…”
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Diverse Kinematic Signatures from Reverberation Mapping of the Broad-Line Region in AGNs by Denney, K. D, Peterson, B. M, Pogge, R. W, Adair, A, Atlee, D. W, Au-Yong, K, Bentz, M. C, Bird, J. C, Brokofsky, D. J, Chisholm, E, Comins, M. L, Dietrich, M, Doroshenko, V. T, Eastman, J. D, Efimov, Y. S, Ewald, S, Ferbey, S, Gaskell, C. M, Hedrick, C. H, Jackson, K, Klimanov, S. A, Klimek, E. S, Kruse, A. K, Ladéroute, A, Lamb, J. B, Leighly, K, Minezaki, T, Nazarov, S. V, Onken, C. A, Petersen, E. A, Peterson, P, Poindexter, S, Sakata, Y, Schlesinger, K. J, Sergeev, S. G, Skolski, N, Stieglitz, L, Tobin, J. J, Unterborn, C, Vestergaard, M, Watkins, A. E, Watson, L. C, Yoshii, Y

“…A detailed analysis of the data from a high sampling rate, multi-month reverberation mapping campaign, undertaken primarily at MDM Observatory with supporting…”
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THE INFRARED LIGHT CURVE OF SN 2011fe IN M101 AND THE DISTANCE TO M101 by Matheson, T, Joyce, R R, Allen, L E, Saha, A, Silva, D R, Wood-Vasey, W M, Adams, J J, Anderson, R E, Beck, T L, Bentz, M C

“…We present near-infrared light curves of supernova (SN) 2011fe in M101, including 34 epochs in H band starting 14 days before maximum brightness in the B band…”
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Reverberation Mapping Measurements of Black Hole Masses in Six Local Seyfert Galaxies by Denney, K. D, Peterson, B. M, Pogge, R. W, Adair, A, Atlee, D. W, Au-Yong, K, Bentz, M. C, Bird, J. C, Brokofsky, D. J, Chisholm, E, Comins, M. L, Dietrich, M, Doroshenko, V. T, Eastman, J. D, Efimov, Y. S, Ewald, S, Ferbey, S, Gaskell, C. M, Hedrick, C. H, Jackson, K, Klimanov, S. A, Klimek, E. S, Kruse, A. K, Ladéroute, A, Lamb, J. B, Leighly, K, Minezaki, T, Nazarov, S. V, Onken, C. A, Petersen, E. A, Peterson, P, Poindexter, S, Sakata, Y, Schlesinger, K. J, Sergeev, S. G, Skolski, N, Stieglitz, L, Tobin, J. J, Unterborn, C, Vestergaard, M, Watkins, A. E, Watson, L. C, Yoshii, Y

“…We present the final results from a high sampling rate, multi-month, spectrophotometric reverberation mapping campaign undertaken to obtain either new or…”
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The Mass of the Black Hole in the Quasar PG 2130+099 by Grier, C. J, Peterson, B. M, Bentz, M. C, Denney, K. D, Eastman, J. D, Dietrich, M, Pogge, R. W, Prieto, J. L, DePoy, D. L, Assef, R. J, Atlee, D. W, Bird, J, Eyler, M. E, Peeples, M. S, Siverd, R, Watson, L. C, Yee, J. C

“…We present the results of a recent reverberation-mapping campaign undertaken to improve measurements of the radius of the broad-line region and the central…”
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TLDR: time lag/delay reconstructor by Anderson, M D, Baron, F, Bentz, M C

“…ABSTRACT We present the time lag/delay reconstructor (TLDR), an algorithm for reconstructing velocity delay maps in the maximum a posteriori framework for…”
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THE TYPECASTING OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI: Mrk 590 NO LONGER FITS THE ROLE by Denney, K D, DeRosa, G, Croxall, K, Gupta, A, Bentz, M C, Fausnaugh, M M, Grier, C J, Martini, P, Mathur, S, Peterson, B M, Pogge, R W, Shappee, B J

“…We present multi wavelength observations that trace more than 40 yr in the life of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) in Mrk 590, traditionally known as a…”
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STELLAR VELOCITY DISPERSION MEASUREMENTS IN HIGH-LUMINOSITY QUASAR HOSTS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE AGN BLACK HOLE MASS SCALE by Grier, C J, Martini, P, Watson, L C, Peterson, B M, Bentz, M C, DASYRA, K M, Dietrich, M, Ferrarese, L, Pogge, R W, ZU, Y

“…We present new stellar velocity dispersion measurements for four luminous quasars with the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer instrument and the ALTAIR…”
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A Revised Broad-line Region Radius and Black Hole Mass for the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 NGC 4051 by Denney, K. D, Watson, L. C, Peterson, B. M, Pogge, R. W, Atlee, D. W, Bentz, M. C, Bird, J. C, Brokofsky, D. J, Comins, M. L, Dietrich, M, Doroshenko, V. T, Eastman, J. D, Efimov, Y. S, Gaskell, C. M, Hedrick, C. H, Klimanov, S. A, Klimek, E. S, Kruse, A. K, Lamb, J. B, Leighly, K, Minezaki, T, Nazarov, S. V, Petersen, E. A, Peterson, P, Poindexter, S, Schlesinger, Y, Sakata, K. J, Sergeev, S. G, Tobin, J. J, Unterborn, C, Vestergaard, M, Watkins, A. E, Yoshii, Y

“…We present the first results from a high sampling rate, multimonth reverberation mapping campaign undertaken primarily at MDM Observatory with supporting…”
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THE SIZE OF THE NARROW-LINE-EMITTING REGION IN THE SEYFERT 1 GALAXY NGC 5548 FROM EMISSION-LINE VARIABILITY by Peterson, B M, Denney, K D, DE ROSA, G, Grier, C J, Pogge, R W, Bentz, M C, Kochanek, C S, Vestergaard, M, KILERCI-ESER, E, Dalla Bonta, E, Ciroi, S

“…The narrow [OIII] [lambda][lambda]4959, 5007 emission-line fluxes in the spectrum of the well-studied Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 are shown to vary with time…”
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The Cepheid Distance to the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4151 by Yuan, W., Fausnaugh, M. M., Hoffmann, S. L., Macri, L. M., Peterson, B. M., Riess, A. G., Bentz, M. C., Brown, J. S., Bontà, E. Dalla, Davies, R. I., Rosa, G. De, Ferrarese, L., Grier, C. J., Hicks, E. K. S., Onken, C. A., Pogge, R. W., Storchi-Bergmann, T., Vestergaard, M.

“…Abstract We derive a distance of 15.8 ± 0.4 Mpc to the archetypal Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151 based on the near-infrared Cepheid period–luminosity relation and…”
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The AGNIFS survey: spatially resolved observations of hot molecular and ionized outflows in nearby active galaxies by Riffel, R A, Storchi-Bergmann, T, Riffel, R, Bianchin, M, Zakamska, N L, Ruschel-Dutra, D, Bentz, M C, Burtscher, L, Crenshaw, D M, Dahmer-Hahn, L G, Dametto, N Z, Davies, R I, Diniz, M R, Fischer, T C, Harrison, C M, Mainieri, V, Revalski, M, Rodriguez-Ardila, A, Rosario, D J, Schönell, A J

“…ABSTRACT We present the hot molecular and warm ionized gas kinematics for 33 nearby (0.001 ≲ z ≲ 0.056) X-ray selected active galaxies using the H$_2\,…”
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ON THE SCATTER IN THE RADIUS-LUMINOSITY RELATIONSHIP FOR ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI by Kilerci Eser, E., Vestergaard, M., Peterson, B. M., Denney, K. D., Bentz, M. C.

“…We investigate and quantify the observed scatter in the empirical relationship between the broad line region size R and the luminosity of the active galactic…”
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THE STRUCTURE OF THE BROAD-LINE REGION IN ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. I. RECONSTRUCTED VELOCITY-DELAY MAPS by Grier, C J, Peterson, B M, Horne, Keith, Bentz, M C, Pogge, R W, Denney, K D, DE ROSA, G, Martini, Paul, Kochanek, C S, ZU, Y

“…We present velocity-resolved reverberation results for five active galactic nuclei. We recovered velocity-delay maps using the maximum entropy method for four…”
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The AGNIFS survey: distribution and excitation of the hot molecular and ionized gas in the inner kpc of nearby AGN hosts by Riffel, R A, Storchi-Bergmann, T, Riffel, R, Bianchin, M, Zakamska, N L, Ruschel-Dutra, D, Schönell, A J, Rosario, D J, Rodriguez-Ardila, A, Fischer, T C, Davies, R I, Dametto, N Z, Dahmer-Hahn, L G, Crenshaw, D M, Burtscher, L, Bentz, M C

“…ABSTRACT We use the Gemini NIFS instrument to map the H$_2\, 2.1218\, \mu$m and Brγ flux distributions in the inner 0.04–2 kpc of a sample of 36 nearby active…”
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REVERBERATION MAPPING RESULTS FOR FIVE SEYFERT 1 GALAXIES by Grier, C J, Peterson, B M, Pogge, R W, Denney, K D, Bentz, M C, Martini, Paul, Sergeev, S G, Kaspi, S, MINEZAKI, T, ZU, Y

“…We present the results from a detailed analysis of photometric and spectrophotometric data on five Seyfert 1 galaxies observed as a part of a recent…”
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Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. X. Understanding the Absorption-line Holiday in NGC 5548 by Dehghanian, M., Ferland, G. J., Kriss, G. A., Peterson, B. M., Mathur, S., Mehdipour, M., Guzmán, F., Chatzikos, M., van Hoof, P. A. M., Williams, R. J. R., Arav, N., Barth, A. J., Bentz, M. C., Bisogni, S., Brandt, W. N., Crenshaw, D. M., Bontà, E. Dalla, De Rosa, G., Fausnaugh, M. M., Gelbord, J. M., Goad, M. R., Gupta, A., Horne, Keith, Kaastra, J., Knigge, C., Korista, K. T., McHardy, I. M., Pogge, R. W., Starkey, D. A., Vestergaard, M.

“…The Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project (AGN STORM) on NGC 5548 in 2014 is one of the most intensive multiwavelength AGN monitoring…”
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The Cepheid Distance to the Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 4051 by Yuan, W., Macri, L. M., Peterson, B. M., Riess, A. G., Fausnaugh, M. M., Hoffmann, S. L., Anand, G. S., Bentz, M. C., Dalla Bontà, E., Davies, R. I., De Rosa, G., Ferrarese, L., Grier, C. J., Hicks, E. K. S., Onken, C. A., Pogge, R. W., Storchi-Bergmann, T., Vestergaard, M.

“…Abstract We derive a distance of D = 16.6 ± 0.3 Mpc ( μ = 31.10 ± 0.04 mag) to the archetypal narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 based on Cepheid…”
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Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. XIII. An Atlas of UV and X-Ray Spectroscopic Signatures of the Disk Wind in NGC 5548 by Dehghanian, M., Ferland, G. J., Peterson, B. M., Kriss, G. A., Korista, K. T., Goad, M. R., Chatzikos, M., Bentz, M. C., Guzmán, F., Mehdipour, M., De Rosa, G.

“…Abstract The unusual behavior of the spectral lines of NGC5548 during the STORM campaign demonstrated a missing piece in the structure of AGNs. For a two-month…”
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