Finding Local Low-mass Supermassive Black Holes
Astrophysics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
The low-mass end of the supermassive black hole mass function is unknown and difficult to determine. Here we discuss our successful program to find active nuclei of late type "normal" galaxies using X-ray detections and multiwavelength identifications. We conclude that most of the Chandra detected nuclear X-ray sources are AGNs. We then outline methods of black hole mass determination when broad emission lines are unobservable.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.0422,
title = {Finding Local Low-mass Supermassive Black Holes},
author = {Smita Mathur and Himel Ghosh and Laura Ferrarese and Fabrizio Fiore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0422},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages. To appear in the proceedings of the Second Kolkata Conference on Observational Evidence for Black Holes, Kolkata, February 2008