The Black Hole Masses of High-Redshift Quasars
Abstract
A reliable method for estimating the black-hole masses of high-redshift quasars would provide crucial new information for understanding the nature and cosmological evolution of quasars. In this proceedings we summarize the results of our recent paper (McLure & Jarvis 2002) which provides a virial black-hole mass estimator based on rest-frame UV observables, thereby allowing reliable black-hole mass estimates to be obtained out to redshifts of z2.5 from optical spectra alone.
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