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Fausnaugh, M. M.; Denney, K. D.; Barth, A. J.; Bentz, M. C.; Bottorff, M. C.; Carini, M. T.; Croxall, K. V.; De Rosa, G.; Goad, M. R.; Horne, Keith; Joner, M. D.; Kaspi, S.; Kim, M.; Klimanov, S. A.; Kochanek, C. S.; Leonard, D. C.; Netzer, H.; Peterson, B. M.; Schnülle, K.; Sergeev, S. G.; Vestergaard, M.; Zheng, W.-K.; Zu, Y.; Anderson, M. D.; Arévalo, P.; Bazhaw, C.; Borman, G. A.; Boroson, T. A.; Brandt, W. N.; Breeveld, A. A.; Brewer, B. J.; Cackett, E. M.; Crenshaw, D. M.; Dalla Bontà, E.; De Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Dietrich, M.; Edelson, R.; Efimova, N. V.; Ely, J.; Evans, P. A.; Filippenko, A. V.; Flatland, K.; Gehrels, N.; Geier, S.; Gelbord, J. M.; Gonzalez, L.; Gorjian, V.; Grier, C. J.; Grupe, D.; Hall, P. B.; Hicks, S.; Horenstein, D.; Hutchison, T.; Im, M.; Jensen, J. J.; Jones, J.; Kaastra, J.; Kelly, B. C.; Kennea, J. A.; Kim, S. C.; Korista, K. T.; Kriss, G. A.; Lee, J. C.; Lira, P.; MacInnis, F.; Manne-Nicholas, E. R.; Mathur, S.; McHardy, I. M.; Montouri, C.; Musso, R.; Nazarov, S. V.; Norris, R. P.; Nousek, J. A.; Okhmat, D. N.; Pancoast, A.; Papadakis, I.; Parks, J. R.; Pei, L.; Pogge, R. W.; Pott, J.-U.; Rafter, S. E.; Rix, H.-W.; Saylor, D. A.; Schimoia, J. S.; Siegel, M.; Spencer, M.; Starkey, D.; Sung, H.-I.; Teems, K. G.; Treu, T.; Turner, C. S.; Uttley, P.; Villforth, C.; Weiss, Y.; Woo, J.-H.; Yan, H.; Young, S.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 821, Issue 1, article id. 56, 25 pp. (2016).
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We present ground-based optical photometric monitoring data for NGC
5548, part of an extended multiwavelength reverberation mapping
campaign. The light curves have nearly daily cadence from 2014 January
to July in nine filters (BVRI and ugriz). Combined with ultraviolet data
from the Hubble Space Telescope and Swift, we confirm significant time
delays between the continuum bands as a function of wavelength,
extending the wavelength coverage from 1158 Å to the z band (~9160
Å). We find that the lags at wavelengths longer than the V band
are equal to or greater than the lags of high-ionization-state emission
lines (such as He ii λ 1640 and λ 4686), suggesting that
the continuum-emitting source is of a physical size comparable to the
inner broad-line region (BLR). The trend of lag with wavelength is
broadly consistent with the prediction for continuum reprocessing by an
accretion disk with τ \propto {λ }4/3. However,
the lags also imply a disk radius that is 3 times larger than the
prediction from standard thin-disk theory, assuming that the bolometric
luminosity is 10% of the Eddington luminosity
(L=0.1{L}{{Edd}}). Using optical spectra from the Large
Binocular Telescope, we estimate the bias of the interband continuum
lags due to BLR emission observed in the filters. We find that the bias
for filters with high levels of BLR contamination (~20%) can be
important for the shortest continuum lags and likely has a significant
impact on the u and U bands owing to Balmer continuum emission.