Event time:
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 2:30pm
Speaker:
Aaron Barth
Speaker Institution:
University of California, Irvine
Talk Title:
"Reverberation mapping of active galactic nuclei: new results from intensive monitoring programs"
Event description:
The method of reverberation mapping uses the time delay between continuum and emission-line variations in active galactic nuclei to probe the structure of the broad-line region and to derive estimates of black hole masses. Reverberation mapping results provide a fundamental low-redshift calibration for the methods used to trace the cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes. I will present some recent developments in reverberation mapping based on results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project and from the AGN-STORM project, which carried out a 6-month intensive program of monitoring the nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548 in 2014.
Location:
JWG 263
260 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Admission:
Free