The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Photometric Light Curves

Anna Pancoast; Andreas Skielboe; Liuyi Pei; Vardha N. Bennert; David J. Sand; Aaron J. Barth; Michael D. Joner; Shawn Thorman; Thomas Schmidt; Tommaso Treu; Brendon J. Brewer; Weidong Li; Tabitha Buehler; C. David Laney; Gabriela Canalizo; Alexei V. Filippenko; Jenny E. Greene; Matthew A. Malkan; Daniel Stern; Jong Hak Woo

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaf806

The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Photometric Light Curves

Anna Pancoast, Andreas Skielboe, Liuyi Pei, Vardha N. Bennert, David J. Sand, Aaron J. Barth, Michael D. Joner, Shawn Thorman, Thomas Schmidt, Tommaso Treu, Brendon J. Brewer, Weidong Li, Tabitha Buehler, C. David Laney, Gabriela Canalizo, Alexei V. Filippenko, Jenny E. Greene, Matthew A. Malkan, Daniel Stern, Jong Hak Woo

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In Spring 2011, the Lick AGN Monitoring Project observed a sample of 15 bright, nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies in the V band as part of a reverberation mapping campaign. The observations were taken at six ground-based telescopes, including the West Mountain Observatory 0.91 m telescope, the 0.76 m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, 0.6 m Super-LOTIS at Kitt Peak, the Palomar 60 inch telescope, and the 2 m Faulkes telescopes North and South. The V-band light curves measure the continuum variability of our sample of Seyferts on an almost daily cadence for 2-3 months. We use image-subtraction software to isolate the variability of the Seyfert nucleus from the constant V-band flux of the host galaxy for the most promising targets, and we adopt standard aperture photometry techniques for the targets with smaller levels of variability. These V-band light curves will be used, with measurements of the broad emission line flux, to measure supermassive black hole masses and to constrain the geometry and dynamics of the broad-line region through dynamical modeling techniques.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	108
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	871
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf806
State	Published - Jan 20 2019

Keywords

galaxies: Seyfert
galaxies: active
galaxies: nuclei

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Pancoast, A., Skielboe, A., Pei, L., Bennert, V. N., Sand, D. J., Barth, A. J., Joner, M. D., Thorman, S., Schmidt, T., Treu, T., Brewer, B. J., Li, W., Buehler, T., Laney, C. D., Canalizo, G., Filippenko, A. V., Greene, J. E., Malkan, M. A., Stern, D., & Woo, J. H. (2019). The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Photometric Light Curves. Astrophysical Journal, 871(1), Article 108. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf806

Pancoast, A, Skielboe, A, Pei, L, Bennert, VN, Sand, DJ, Barth, AJ, Joner, MD, Thorman, S, Schmidt, T, Treu, T, Brewer, BJ, Li, W, Buehler, T, Laney, CD, Canalizo, G, Filippenko, AV, Greene, JE, Malkan, MA, Stern, D & Woo, JH 2019, 'The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Photometric Light Curves', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 871, no. 1, 108. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaf806

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