Special Seminar: Aaron Barth

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 See map
260 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Admission: 
Free