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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

broadband photometric, reverberation mapping, meter-class telescopes

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

The environment surrounding supermassive black holes in active galaxies is very difficult to probe. The physical size of the region of interest can usually fit within our solar system, yet is hundreds of thousands of light years away. It can, however, be probed through the reverberation mapping technique. This technique requires the galactic nuclei to be simultaneously observed both spectroscopically with a large 2 meter-class telescope and photometrically (can be done with a smaller telescope). Since obtaining large telescope time for long observing campaigns is difficult, we present a new broadband photometric reverberation mapping technique that can be performed on meter-class telescopes.

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