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Table 4

Final virial BH mass estimators.


Variables All (f0 = 4.31) CB (f0 = 4.31) PB (f0 = 4.31)




LX FWHM a ba a ba a ba
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)




a1 ) L2−10 keV Hα (or Paα, Paβ, He i) 8.03 ± 0.01 1 8.08 ± 0.02 1 7.91 ± 0.03 1
a2 ) L2−10 keV Hβ 7.88 ± 0.03 1 7.93 ± 0.03 1 7.76 ± 0.04 1
a3 ) L14−195 keV Hα (or Paα, Paβ, He i) 7.75 ± 0.01 1 7.79 ± 0.02 1 7.63 ± 0.03 1
a4 ) L14−195 keV Hβ 7.60 ± 0.03 1 7.65 ± 0.03 1 7.48 ± 0.04 1

Variables Allb CB (f0 = 6.3) PB (f0 = 3.2)




LX FWHM a b a ba a ba
b1 ) L2−10 keV Hα (or Paα, Paβ, He i) 8.19 ± 0.02 1.38 ± 0.03 8.25 ± 0.02 1 7.78 ± 0.02 1
b2 ) L 2−10 keV Hβ 7.98 ± 0.04 1.38 ± 0.03 8.10 ± 0.03 1 7.63 ± 0.04 1
b3 ) L14−195 keV Hα (or Paα, Paβ, He i) 7.80 ± 0.02 1.38 ± 0.03 7.96 ± 0.02 1 7.50 ± 0.03 1
b4 ) L14−195 keV Hβ 7.59 ± 0.04 1.38 ± 0.03 7.81 ± 0.03 1 7.35 ± 0.04 1

Notes. Parameters to be used in the virial relation described in the top part of this table. The resulting BH mass values can be converted assuming other virial factor f using the additional term log (f/f0). The assumed f0 in each sample is also reported. All the above virial calibrations have an intrinsic spread of ~0.5 dex that should be taken into account when evaluating the accuracy of the BH mass estimates (see Table 3). Columns are (1) the hard X-ray luminosity; (2) the FWHM, both variables needed to compute the VP; and (3) to (8) the zero points a and the slopes b of each sample.

(a)

Fixed value.

(b)

Note that in this sample different f factors, according to the bulge morphology, were adopted. Therefore the average correction log (f/f0) cannot be applied.

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