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THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY REVERBERATION MAPPING PROJECT: AN INVESTIGATION OF BIASES IN C IV EMISSION LINE PROPERTIES

  • Authors: K. D. Denney, Keith Horne, Yue Shen, W. N. Brandt, Luis C. Ho, B. M. Peterson, Gordon T. Richards, J. R. Trump, and J. Ge

2016 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 224 14.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 5.

Histograms of the fractional differences between coadded and SE C IV emission line width measurements, FWHM (left) and σl (right). The histograms are color-coded by data quality as shown in the legend (note: the S/N < 5 subsample is contained within the S/N < 10 subsample). The similarly color-coded shaded bars in the small top panels show the asymmetric scatter, given by the 16th–84th-percentile range, of each data-quality distribution, and the points and arrows correspond to the distribution median ± the median fractional statistical uncertainty given in column 5 of Tables 1 and 2, respectively. An increasing bias is seen for lower-S/N subsamples that, while encompassed within the scatter of all distributions, is also encompassed within the statistical uncertainties at all S/N levels for σl but only for S/N > 10 for the FWHM.

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