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Constraining the uncertainties in single-epoch virial black hole masses

  • Park, Dae-Seong;Woo, Jong-Hak
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.49.1-49.1
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    • 2011
  • Utilizing single-epoch spectra and the empirical relation between the size of the broad-line region and AGN continuum luminosity, the so-called single-epoch method has been widely used for estimating AGN black hole masses. However, the systematic uncertainties and the potential biases of this method are not well examined. Taking the full advantage of the high-quality homogeneous spectra from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project (LAMP), we investigate in detail the uncertainties of single-epoch mass estimates by comparing with the reverberation-mapping results. We find that the uncertainty due to AGN variability is less than 0.1 dex, while there is a systematic offset between single-epoch masses and reverberation masses. Particularly, narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies show that the Hbeta line widths measured from single-epoch (or mean) spectra are systematically larger than those from rms spectra, indicating a potential bias of single-epoch masses. We will present the detailed measurement method, the test of virial assumption, and the systematic uncertainties.

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A comparative study on algorithms for GPS baseline processing (GPS 기선해석을 위한 알고리즘 비교연구)

  • Lee, Ki-Do;Choi, Yun-Soo;Lee, Im-Pyeong
    • 한국지형공간정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.39-43
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    • 2004
  • GPS 기선해석에서 가장 중요한 과정은 정수 바이어스를 결정하는 것이다. 기존에 Multi Epoch를 사용한 방법이 일반적이었으나 Single Epoch를 이용한 방법이 개발되었다. 본 연구는 Multi Epoch 및 Single Epoch 알고리듬이 구현된 소프트웨어를 활용하여 여러 가지 데이터 처리 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 분석하였다. 이를 통해 실시간 정밀 측량에 대한 이용 가능성을 검증하였다.

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Experimental Comparison of Software for Real-time GPS Precision Positioning (실시간 GPS 정밀 측위를 위한 소프트웨어의 실험적 비교)

  • Lee, Ki-Do;Choi, Yun-Soo;Lee, Im-Pyeong
    • Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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    • v.13 no.1 s.31
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    • pp.37-43
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    • 2005
  • GPS has been increasingly used in high precision positioning thanks to rapid advances of GPS technology. In order to acquire precise coordinates from GPS, it is important to solve accurately integer ambiguity inherent in GPS signals. The previous methods to solve this ambiguity were mostly based on multi-epoch data but recently a method based on single-epoch data has been developed. In this study, we selected three sets of software based on these methods, applied them to GPS baseline processing, and analyzed the experimental results. From these analyses, we have also verified the potential of their uses in real time precision positioning.

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Physical Activity Assessment of Preschool Children Using Accelerometer - Including Comparison of Reintegrating Counts of Different Epoch Lengths - (가속도계를 이용한 미취학아동의 신체활동 평가 - 자료요약주기의 재통합 측정치와의 비교를 포함하여 -)

  • Kim, Ji-Yeon;Choi, Yeon-Jung;Ju, Mun-Jeong;Kim, Eun-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.214-224
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the physical activity of preschool children using an accelerometer and investigate differences related to epoch length setting during use of the accelerometer. Subjects of the study were 26 children (12 boys and 14 girls) at the age of 5, enrolled in one preschool located in Gangneung. From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (7 hours period), every child wore a total of four accelerometers (ActiGraph $GT3X^+$, USA), including three attached to the left hip (with epoch length set at 5 seconds, 15 seconds, and 30 seconds). For comparison purposes, a forth was attached to the opposite position, with epoch length set at 5 seconds. Data collected using 15s epoch and 30s epoch (single larger epoch) were compared with those obtained after reintegration of 5s to 15s epoch, 5s to 30s epoch, and 15s to 30s epoch, respectively (smaller epochs reintegrated). According to the results of this study, there were no significant differences in VM between 30s epoch and 5s to 30s epoch reintegrated and in MVPA (moderate-to-vigorous physical activity), between 15s epoch and 5s to 15s epoch reintegrated. From the Bland-Altman plot, reintegration of 15s to 30s epoch in VM and reintegrations of 15s to 30s epoch and 5s to 15s epoch in MVPA can be recommended for assessing physical activity in preschool children. Further research is needed into the reintegration method while using an accelerometer for assessment of energy expenditure in children.

Supermassive Black Hole Masses of ~500k QSOs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

  • Taak, Yoon Chan;Im, Myungshin
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.77.2-77.2
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    • 2019
  • Measurements of supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses are crucial in studying the co-evolution of SMBHs and their host galaxies. Although reverberation mapping is the most accurate method known to date, this requires spectroscopic monitoring over long periods. Thus, the current sample barely reaches three digits. The virial method, on the other hand, uses emission-line and continuum properties from a single spectrum to estimate the SMBH mass; hence the name single-epoch method. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has observed spectra of almost all quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) discovered so far. Building on previous studies, using the single-epoch method, we estimate the SMBH masses of more than 500,000 QSOs from the SDSS DR14 Quasar Catalog. This increases the mass-estimated SMBH sample almost by a factor of two, and especially more for the low-mass regime, which was the main target of SDSS-IV (eBOSS).

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Experimental Comparison of Software for Real-time GPS Precision Positioning (실시간 GPS 정밀측위를 위한 소프트웨어의 실험적 비교)

  • Lee, Ki-Do;Choi, Yun-Soo;Lee, Im-Pyeong;Sa, Seok-Jae
    • 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 2005
  • GPS 기술의 빠른 발전에 힘입어 정밀 측위 분야에도 GPS의 활용은 증가하고 있다. GPS로부터 정밀한 좌표를 획득하기 위해서 GPS 신호에서 모호 정수 값을 정확하게 결정하는 것이 중요하다. 이를 위해 기존에는 다중시점(multi-epoch) 데이터를 사용한 방법이 일반적이었으나 최근에 단일시점(single-epoch) 데이터를 이용한 방법이 개발되었다. 이에 본 연구는 각각의 방법이 구현된 세 가지 소프트웨어를 활용하여 GPS 기선해석과 관련된 다양한 실험을 수행하여 결과를 분석하였다. 이를 통해 실시간 정밀 측위에 대한 이용 가능성을 검증하였다.

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An Integer Ambiguity Resolution Method for GPS Attitude Determination (GPS를 이용한 자세 측정 시스템의 미지정수 결정기법)

  • 박찬식;김일선
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.62-68
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    • 1999
  • The attitude of a vehicle can be precisely determined using GPS carrier phase measurements from more than two antennas attached to a vehicle and an efficient integer ambiguity resolution technique. Many methods utilizing the known baseline length as a constraint of independent elements of integer ambiguities are proposed to resolve integer ambiguity at real time. Three-dimensional search space is reduced to two-dimensional search space with this constraint. Thus the true integer ambiguity can be easily determined with less computational burden and fewer number of measurements. But there are still strong requirements for the real time integer ambiguity resolution, which uses single epoch measurement of long baseline. In this paper, a new constraint from the geometry of multiple baselines is derived. With this new constraint, two-dimensional search space is further reduced to one-dimensional search space. It makes possible to determine integer ambiguity with single epoch measurement. The proposed method is applied to real data to show its effectiveness.

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Updating calibration of CIV-based single-epoch black hole mass estimators

  • Park, Daeseong;Barth, Aaron J.;Woo, Jong-Hak;Malkan, Matthew A.;Treu, Tommaso;Bennert, Vardha N.;Pancoast, Anna
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.61.1-61.1
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    • 2016
  • Black hole (BH) mass is a fundamental quantity to understand BH growth, galaxy evolution, and connection between them. Thus, obtaining accurate and precise BH mass estimates over cosmic time is of paramount importance. The rest-frame UV CIV ${\lambda}1549$ broad emission line is commonly used for BH mass estimates in high-redshift AGNs (i.e., $2{\leq}z{\leq}5$) when single-epoch (SE) optical spectra are available. Achieving correct and accurate calibration for CIV-based SE BH mass estimators against the most reliable reverberation-mapping based BH mass estimates is thus practically important and still useful. By performing multi-component spectral decomposition analysis to obtained high-quality HST UV spectra for the updated sample of local reverberation-mapped AGNs including new HST STIS observations, CIV emission line widths and continuum luminosities are consistently measured. Using a Bayesian hierarchical model with MCMC sampling based on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm (Stan NUTS), we provide the most consistent and accurate calibration of CIV-based BH mass estimators for the three line width characterizations, i.e., full width at half maximum (FWHM), line dispersion (${\sigma}_{line}$), and mean absolute deviation (MAD), in the extended BH mass dynamic range of log $M_{BH}/M_{\odot}=6.5-9.1$.

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ON THE SPACING PATTERN OF PLANETS AND SATELLITES

  • La, Daile
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.105-109
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    • 1992
  • We show that spacing patterns of planets and satellites in the solar system are formulatable in a single form. It is suggested that a possible explanation for the rule might be the orbital resonance effect, which has existed at an earlier epoch of the solar (planet) system. By extrapolating the formulated spacing patterns beyond the sun-Pluto distance, we find the sun-Planet X distance falls in a range ($46{\sim}79$) A. U..

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Performance Analysis of Least-Squares Estimation and LAMBDA Method for GPS Precise Positioning using Carrier Phase (GPS 반송파 위상을 이용한 정밀 측위의 최소자승법과 LAMBDA기법의 성능분석)

  • 박헌준;원종훈;고선준;이자성
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.146-146
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    • 2000
  • This paper presents field test results of the GPS precise positioning using carrier phase observable. The Least-squares AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment(LAMBDA) method is implemented to resolve integer ambiguity problem for two epoch Ll carrier phase measurement data. Field test results show that the GPS precise positioning of cm-level accuracy is obtainable with conventional low cost, single frequency C/A code GPS receivers.

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