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The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Photometric Light Curves

Astrophysical Journal, ISSN: 1538-4357, Vol: 871, Issue: 1, Page: 1-10
2019
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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.

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

American Astronomical Society

Physics and Astronomy; Earth and Planetary Sciences

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