LCOGT Key Project: Echo Mapping of AGN Accretion Flows
Keith Horne (PI, St Andrews), Aaron Barth (UC Irvine), Todd Boroson (LCOGT), Steve Crawford (SAAO), Encarni Romero Colmenero (SALT), Chris Onken (ANU), Anna Pancoast (UCSB), David Sand (Texas Tech), Robert Schmidt (Heidelberg), Tommaso Treu (UCSB->UCLA), Stefano Valenti (LCOGT), Carolin Villforth (St Andrews->Bath), Hartmut Winkler (Johannesburg), Joachim Wambsganss (Heidelberg)
Supermassive black holes play a key role in galaxy formation, motivating efforts to understand their growth rates and demography over cosmic time. Constraints on Dark Matter and Dark Energy, as probed e.g. by Type Ia SNe, can benefit from luminosity distances secured by different methods and expecially at higher redshifts. The AGN Key Project aims to measure black hole masses, accretion rates, and luminosity distances out to z ∼ 2.3..