@article{86ed2f52e24d469f968a7da68b26bf80,
title = "The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011: Photometric Light Curves",
abstract = "In Spring 2011, the Lick AGN Monitoring Project observed a sample of 15 bright, nearby Seyfert 1 galaxies in the V band as part of a reverberation mapping campaign. The observations were taken at six ground-based telescopes, including the West Mountain Observatory 0.91 m telescope, the 0.76 m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope, 0.6 m Super-LOTIS at Kitt Peak, the Palomar 60 inch telescope, and the 2 m Faulkes telescopes North and South. The V-band light curves measure the continuum variability of our sample of Seyferts on an almost daily cadence for 2-3 months. We use image-subtraction software to isolate the variability of the Seyfert nucleus from the constant V-band flux of the host galaxy for the most promising targets, and we adopt standard aperture photometry techniques for the targets with smaller levels of variability. These V-band light curves will be used, with measurements of the broad emission line flux, to measure supermassive black hole masses and to constrain the geometry and dynamics of the broad-line region through dynamical modeling techniques.",
keywords = "galaxies: Seyfert, galaxies: active, galaxies: nuclei",
author = "Anna Pancoast and Andreas Skielboe and Liuyi Pei and Bennert, {Vardha N.} and Sand, {David J.} and Barth, {Aaron J.} and Joner, {Michael D.} and Shawn Thorman and Thomas Schmidt and Tommaso Treu and Brewer, {Brendon J.} and Weidong Li and Tabitha Buehler and Laney, {C. David} and Gabriela Canalizo and Filippenko, {Alexei V.} and Greene, {Jenny E.} and Malkan, {Matthew A.} and Daniel Stern and Woo, {Jong Hak}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the Lick Observatory staff for their exceptional support during our observing campaign. The Lick AGN Monitoring Project 2011 is supported by NSF grants AST-1107812, 1107865, 1108665, and 1108835. M.D.J. would like to thank the Brigham Young University College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences for continued support of the West Mountain Observatory research facilities. During the LAMP 2011 campaign, WMO received additional support from NSF grant AST-0618209. This research was made possible through the use of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS), funded by the Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fund. Work at UC Irvine was additionally supported by NSF grant AST-1412693. The Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK) is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation. A.P. is supported by NASA through Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship grant No. PF5-160141 awarded by the Chandra X-ray Center, which is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA under contract NAS8-03060. A.V.F. is grateful for the financial assistance of the TABASGO Foundation, the Christopher R. Redlich Fund, and the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (UC Berkeley). Research by D.J.S. is supported by NSF grants AST-1821967, 1821987, 1813708, and 1813466. The work of D.S. was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA. J.H.W. acknowledges support by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (No.2017R1A5A1070354). T.T. is grateful to the Packard Foundation for support through a Packard Research Fellowship and to the NSF for support through grants AST-1107865 and AST-1412315. V.N.B. gratefully acknowledges assistance from an NSF Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grant AST-1312296. Research at Lick Observatory is partially supported by a generous gift from Google. Note that our findings and conclusions do not necessarily represent the views of the NSF. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "20",
doi = "10.3847/1538-4357/aaf806",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "871",
journal = "Astrophysical Journal",
issn = "0004-637X",
publisher = "IOP Publishing Ltd.",
number = "1",
}