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HI Spectroscopy of Reverberation-Mapped Active Galactic Nuclei

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2019-07-31 v1

Abstract

We present HI 21 cm spectroscopy from the GBT for the host galaxies of 31 nearby AGNs with direct MBH_{\textrm{BH}} measurements from reverberation mapping. These are the first published HI detections for 12 galaxies, and the spectral quality is generally an improvement over archival data for the remainder of the sample. We present measurements of emission-line fluxes, velocity widths, and recessional velocities from which we derive HI mass, total gas mass, and redshifts. Combining MGAS_{\textrm{GAS}} with constraints on MSTARS_{\textrm{STARS}} allows exploration of the baryonic content of these galaxies. We find a typical MGAS_{\textrm{GAS}}/MSTARS_{\textrm{STARS}} fraction of 10%, with a few reaching \sim30-50%. We also examined several relationships between MSTARS_{\textrm{STARS}}, MGAS_{\textrm{GAS}}, MBH_{\textrm{BH}}, baryonic mass, and morphological type. We find a weak preference for galaxies with larger MGAS_{\textrm{GAS}} to host more massive black holes. We also find gas-to-stellar fractions to weakly correlate with later types in unbarred spirals, with an approximately constant fraction for barred spirals. Consistent with previous studies, we find declining MGAS_{\textrm{GAS}}/MSTARS_{\textrm{STARS}} with increasing MSTARS_{\textrm{STARS}}, with a slope suggesting the gas reservoirs have been replenished. Finally, we find a clear relationship for MBH_{\textrm{BH}}-MBARY_{\textrm{BARY}} with a similar slope as MBH_{\textrm{BH}}-MSTARS_{\textrm{STARS}} reported by Bentz & Manne-Nicholas (2018). The dwarf Seyfert NGC 4395 appears to follow this relationship as well, even though it has a significantly higher gas fraction and smaller MBH_{\textrm{BH}} than the remainder of our sample.

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@article{arxiv.1906.07062,
  title  = {HI Spectroscopy of Reverberation-Mapped Active Galactic Nuclei},
  author = {Justin H. Robinson and Misty C. Bentz and Megan C. Johnson and Hélène M. Courtois and Benjamin Ou-Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07062},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Accepted for publication in ApJ. 23 pages, 8 figures