Super massive black holes in spiral galaxies: HST/STIS observations for 3 new objects
Abstract
We present long-slit HST/STIS measurements of the ionized-gas kinematics in the nucleus of three disk galaxies, namely NGC 2179, NGC 4343, NGC 4435. The sample galaxies have been selected on the basis of their ground-based spectroscopy, for displaying a strong central velocity gradient for the ionized gas, which is consistent with the presence of a circum nuclear keplerian disk (CNKD, Bertola et al. 1998; Funes et al. 2002) rotating around a super massive black hole (SMBH). For each target galaxy we obtained the H_alpha and [NII] 6583 AA kinematics along the major axis and two 0"25 parallel offset positions. Out of three objects only NGC 4435 turned out to have a disk of ionized gas in regular motion and a regular dust-lane morphology. Preliminary modeling indicates a SMBH mass one order of magnitude lower than the one expected from the M-sigma relation for galaxies (Ferrarese & Merritt 2000; Gebhardt et al. 2000).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0404575,
title = {Super massive black holes in spiral galaxies: HST/STIS observations for 3 new objects},
author = {L. Coccato and E. Dalla Bonta' and M. Sarzi and A. Pizzella and E. M. Corsini and F. Bertola},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0404575},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure, to appear in "The Interplay among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei", IAU Symposium 222, eds. Th. Storchi Bergmann, L.C. Ho & H.R. Schmitt