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OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: CIV lags from six years of data

Published 1 week agoVersion 1arXiv:2512.01260

Authors

A. Penton, H. McDougall, T. M. Davis, Z. Yu, U. Malik, P. Martini, B. E. Tucker, C. Lidman, G. F. Lewis, R. Sharp, M. Aguena, S. Allam, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Asorey, D. Bacon, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, R. Camilleri, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Carollo, A. Carr, J. Carretero, T. Y. Cheng, L. N. da Costa, M. E. da Silva Pereira, J. De Vicente, S. Desai, S. Everett, J. García-Bellido, K. Glazebrook, D. Gruen, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, K. Kuehn, O. Lahav, S. Lee, M. March, J. L. Marshall, J. Mena-Fernández, R. Miquel, J. Myles, R. L. C. Ogando, A. A. Plazas Malagón, A. Porredon, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, A. K. Romer, E. Sanchez, D. Sanchez Cid, M. Smith, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, V. Vikram, N. Weaverdyck

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astro-ph.GA

Abstract

We present 29 successfully recovered CIV time lags in Active Galactic Nuclei from the complete Dark Energy Survey Reverberation Mapping campaign. The AGN in this sample span a redshift range of 1.9<z<3.5. We successfully measure the velocity dispersion from the CIV spectral linewidth for 25 of these 29 sources, and use these to calculate new high-redshift black hole mass estimates, finding masses between 0.8 and 1.3 billion solar masses. We also identify a selection effect due to the duration of the survey that can impact the radius-luminosity relation derived from this and other (high-redshift) data. This paper represents the culmination of the OzDES CIV campaign.

OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: CIV lags from six years of data

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astro-ph.GA

Abstract

We present 29 successfully recovered CIV time lags in Active Galactic Nuclei from the complete Dark Energy Survey Reverberation Mapping campaign. The AGN in this sample span a redshift range of 1.9<z<3.5. We successfully measure the velocity dispersion from the CIV spectral linewidth for 25 of these 29 sources, and use these to calculate new high-redshift black hole mass estimates, finding masses between 0.8 and 1.3 billion solar masses. We also identify a selection effect due to the duration of the survey that can impact the radius-luminosity relation derived from this and other (high-redshift) data. This paper represents the culmination of the OzDES CIV campaign.

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A. Penton, H. McDougall, T. M. Davis et al. (+52 more)

arXiv ID: 2512.01260
Published Dec 1, 2025

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