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Caption: Figure 6.
The effect of different size–luminosity relations on the BH mass estimation. The figure compares the BH mass estimations of the sample LRDs, assuming the typical RBLR–L relation calibrated for the AGN accretion disk (x-axis) and assuming that BLRs are just at the photospheric radius of the blackbody envelope (y-axis). Plots are color-coded by the blackbody temperature (TBB). This demonstrates that using the typical RBLR–L relation can overestimate the BH mass by ∼1 dex due to the different RBLR estimations.
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