Volume 328 - Revisiting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies and their place in the Universe (NLS1-2018) - Black hole and host galaxy
The mass of NLS1 black holes: reconciling accretion disk and virial estimates
G. Calderone,* F. D'Ammando, T. Sbarrato
*corresponding author
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Pre-published on: 2018 August 08
Published on: 2018 December 21
Abstract
Radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (RL-NLS1) are characterized by relatively small widths of emission lines, hence their virial black hole mass estimates are typically smaller (and Eddington ratios correspondingly higher) than those of broad line Type 1 active galactic nuclei. However independent black hole mass estimation methods, such as those based on the accretion disk spectrum modeling, suggest that RL-NLS1 black hole masses are significantly larger than those estimated by virial methods, and that masses for both narrow and broad line Type 1 sources lie in the same range. In this paper we provide new black hole mass estimates for 25 RL-NLS1 sources (using the disk modeling method) and argue that a plausible way to solve the black hole mass discrepancy is to assume that the accretion disk in RL-NLS1 has a radiatively efficiency $\eta \sim 1$\%, significantly lower than previously assumed.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.328.0044
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