Can reverberation-measured quasars be used for cosmology?.

Quasars have been proposed as a new class of standard candles analogous to Supernovae, as their large redshift range and high luminosities make them excellent candidates. Reverberation mapping (RM) method enables to estimate the distance to the source from the time delay measurement of the emission lines with respect to the continuum, since the time delay depends on the absolute luminosity of the source. This radius-luminosity (RL) relation exhibits a low scatter and it was thus proposed for the cosmological purposes. However, in the recent years the increase in the studied sample, and in particular the inclusion of highly accreting QSO has increased the dispersion in the RL relation, with many objects showing time delays shorter than the expected. Using H$\beta$ RM measurements for 117 sources with $0.2

Keywords:

• Lambda-CDM model
• Astrophysics
• Cosmic distance ladder
• Physics
• Cosmological constant
• Reverberation mapping
• Quasar
• Redshift
• Luminosity
• Virial theorem

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