Abstract: | First I will present results of selected AGN variability campaigns taken with the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope. Based on spectral variability campaigns we can derive the distance of the line emitting regions from the center, the structure in the broad-line region (BLR) based on different emission lines, as well as the mass of the central black hole.
In a few cases we get information on the structure and velocity field of the broad-line region based on line segment variations - the so called 2D-reverberation mapping method.
Finally, I will introduce the results of a recent Nature paper: There exists a correlation between emission line width and emission line shape in the spectra of AGN. Modeling this relation we can demonstrate that broad-line active galactic nuclei rotate faster than narrow-line ones and that the BLR geometry depends on the rotational velocity. |