Revealing Hidden Substructures in the $M_{BH}$-$\sigma$ Diagram, and Refining the Bend in the $L$-$\sigma$ Relation
Abstract
Using 145 early- and late-type galaxies (ETGs and LTGs) with directly-measured super-massive black hole masses, , we build upon our previous discoveries that: (i) LTGs, most of which have been alleged to contain a pseudobulge, follow the relation ; and (ii) the ETG relation is an artifact of ETGs with/without disks following parallel relations which are offset by an order of magnitude in the -direction. Here, we searched for substructure in the --(central velocity dispersion, ) diagram using our recently published, multi-component, galaxy decompositions; investigating divisions based on the presence of a depleted stellar core (major dry-merger), a disk (minor wet/dry-merger, gas accretion), or a bar (evolved unstable disk). The S\'ersic and core-S\'ersic galaxies define two distinct relations: and , with and ~dex, respectively. We also report on the consistency with the slopes and bends in the galaxy luminosity ()-- relation due to S\'ersic and core-S\'ersic ETGs, and LTGs which all have S\'ersic light-profiles. Two distinct relations (superficially) reappear in the -- diagram upon separating galaxies with/without a disk (primarily for the ETG sample), while we find no significant offset between barred and non-barred galaxies, nor between galaxies with/without active galactic nuclei. We also address selection biases purported to affect the scaling relations for dynamically-measured samples. Our new, (morphological type)-dependent, -- relations more precisely estimate in other galaxies, and hold implications for galaxy/black hole co-evolution theories, and simulations. (Abridged)
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@article{arxiv.1908.06838,
title = {Revealing Hidden Substructures in the $M_{BH}$-$\sigma$ Diagram, and Refining the Bend in the $L$-$\sigma$ Relation},
author = {Nandini Sahu and Alister W. Graham and Benjamin L. Davis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.06838},
year = {2019}
}
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33 pages, 15 figures, 5 tables; Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal on 22 October 2019