We report the virial measurements of the BH mass of a sample of 17 type 2 AGN, drawn from the Swift/BAT 70-month 14-195 keV hard X-ray catalogue, where a faint BLR component has been measured via deep NIR (0.8-2.5 $\mu$m) spectroscopy. We compared the type 2 AGN with a control sample of 33 type 1 AGN. We find that the type 2 AGN BH masses span the 5$<$ log(M$_{BH}$ /M$_{\odot}$) $< $7.5 range, with an average log(M$_{BH}$/M$_{\odot}$) = 6.7, which is $\sim$ 0.8 dex smaller than found for type 1 AGN. If type 1 and type 2 AGN of the same X-ray luminosity log($L_{14-195}$/erg s$^{-1}$) $\sim$ 43.5 are compared, type 2 AGN have 0.5 dex smaller BH masses than type 1 AGN. Although based on few tens of objects, this result disagrees with the standard AGN unification scenarios in which type 1 and type 2 AGN are the same objects observed along different viewing angles with respect to a toroidal absorbing material.

Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN – II. On the measurement of the black hole mass of type 2 AGN and the unified model / Onori, F.; Ricci, F.; La Franca, F.; Bianchi, S.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Fiore, F.; Maiolino, R.; Marconi, A.; Sani, E.; Vignali, C.. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. LETTERS. - ISSN 1745-3925. - ELETTRONICO. - 468:1(2017), pp. L97-L102. [10.1093/mnrasl/slx032]

Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN – II. On the measurement of the black hole mass of type 2 AGN and the unified model

Ricci, F.;BRUSA, MARCELLA
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VIGNALI, CRISTIAN
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2017

Abstract

We report the virial measurements of the BH mass of a sample of 17 type 2 AGN, drawn from the Swift/BAT 70-month 14-195 keV hard X-ray catalogue, where a faint BLR component has been measured via deep NIR (0.8-2.5 $\mu$m) spectroscopy. We compared the type 2 AGN with a control sample of 33 type 1 AGN. We find that the type 2 AGN BH masses span the 5$<$ log(M$_{BH}$ /M$_{\odot}$) $< $7.5 range, with an average log(M$_{BH}$/M$_{\odot}$) = 6.7, which is $\sim$ 0.8 dex smaller than found for type 1 AGN. If type 1 and type 2 AGN of the same X-ray luminosity log($L_{14-195}$/erg s$^{-1}$) $\sim$ 43.5 are compared, type 2 AGN have 0.5 dex smaller BH masses than type 1 AGN. Although based on few tens of objects, this result disagrees with the standard AGN unification scenarios in which type 1 and type 2 AGN are the same objects observed along different viewing angles with respect to a toroidal absorbing material.
2017
Detection of faint broad emission lines in type 2 AGN – II. On the measurement of the black hole mass of type 2 AGN and the unified model / Onori, F.; Ricci, F.; La Franca, F.; Bianchi, S.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Fiore, F.; Maiolino, R.; Marconi, A.; Sani, E.; Vignali, C.. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. LETTERS. - ISSN 1745-3925. - ELETTRONICO. - 468:1(2017), pp. L97-L102. [10.1093/mnrasl/slx032]
Onori, F.; Ricci, F.; La Franca, F.; Bianchi, S.; Bongiorno, A.; Brusa, M.; Fiore, F.; Maiolino, R.; Marconi, A.; Sani, E.; Vignali, C.
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