Spectroscopic and Photometric Study of the Low-luminous AGN NGC 4395
2024
Shivangi Pandey | Suvendu Rakshit | Priyanka Jalan | Krishan Chand
The study of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) and estimating the black hole mass could potentially elucidate the origin of supermassive black hole (SMBH) seeds present at high redshifts and how they co-evolve with their host galaxy. The difficulty in detecting these IMBHs and the requirement of high spatial resolution to measure BHs mass makes this task challenging. In this work, we have performed photometric and spectroscopic analyses of an extremely low luminosity Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC4395. Our observations revealed strong emission lines in the spectra, and we observed a fractional variability in the V-band of 12%. Utilizing the broad-line region (BLR) size-luminosity relation for active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we estimated the size of the BLR to be 74±14 light minutes, based on a continuum luminosity of 1038 erg s−1 at 5100 Å. Additionally, the gas clouds are found to be revolving with a velocity dispersion of 384 km s−1 around the central engine, leading to a black hole mass estimation of ∼3.87−1.1+1.1 ×105 M⊙.
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