Exploring possible relations between optical variability time scales and broad emission line shapes in AGN

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Here we investigate the connection of broad emission line shapes and continuum light curve variability time scales of type-1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).

• We developed a new model to describe optical broad emission lines as an accretion disk model of a line profile with additional ring emission.
• We connect ring radii with orbital time scales derived from optical light curves, and using Kepler's third law, we calculate mass of central supermassive black hole (SMBH).
• The obtained results for central black hole masses are in a good agreement with {other methods.