Supermassive Black Holes with High Accretion Rates in Active Galactic Nuclei. VIII. Structure of the Broad-Line Region and Mass of the Central Black Hole in Mrk 142

no code implementations • 15 Nov 2018 • Yan-Rong Li, Yu-Yang Songsheng, Jie Qiu, Chen Hu, Pu Du, Kai-Xing Lu, Ying-Ke Huang, Jin-Ming Bai, Wei-Hao Bian, Ye-Fei Yuan, Luis C. Ho, Jian-Min Wang

We apply three BLR models with different prescriptions of BLR clouds distributions and find that the best model for fitting the data of Mrk 142 is a two-zone BLR model, consistent with the theoretical BLR model surrounding slim accretion disks.

Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics