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Supermassive black holes from OASIS and SAURON integral-field kinematics

Astrophysics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

Supermassive black holes are a key element in our understanding of how galaxies form. Most of the progress in this very active field of research is based on just ~30 determinations of black hole mass, accumulated over the past decade. We illustrate how integral-field spectroscopy, and in particular our OASIS modeling effort, can help improve the current situation.

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@article{arxiv.0709.2861,
  title  = {Supermassive black holes from OASIS and SAURON integral-field kinematics},
  author = {M. Cappellari and R. Bacon and R. L. Davies and P. T. de Zeeuw and E. Emsellem and J. Falcon-Barroso and D. Krajnovic and H. Kuntschner and R. M. McDermid and R. F. Peletier and M. Sarzi and R. C. E. van den Bosch and G. van de Ven},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.2861},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX. To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 245 "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges", M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula, and B. Barbuy, eds