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Virial Black Hole Mass Estimates of Quasars in the XQ-100 Legacy Survey
Samuel Lai, Christopher A. Onken, Christian Wolf, Fuyan Bian, Guido Cupani, Sebastian Lopez, Valentina D'Odorico
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The black hole (BH) mass and luminosity are key factors in determining how a quasar interacts with its environment. In this study, we utilise data from the European Southern Observatory Large Programme XQ-100, a high-quality sample of 100 X-shooter spectra of the most luminous quasars in the redshift range 3.5 < z < 4.5, and measure the properties of three prominent optical and ultraviolet broad emission-lines present in the wide wavelength coverage of X-shooter: CIV, MgII, and Hβ. The line properties of all three broad lines are used for virial estimates of the BH mass and their resulting mass estimates for this sample are tightly correlated. The BH mass range is log(M_(BH)/M_⊙) = 8.6-10.3 with bolometric luminosities estimated from the 3000A continuum in the range log(L_(bol)/erg s⁻¹) = 46.7-48.0. Robustly determined properties of these quasars enable a variety of follow-up research in quasar astrophysics, from chemical abundance and evolution in the broad-line region to radiatively driven quasar outflows.
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