We investigate the accuracy of mass determinations M_BH of supermassive black holes in galaxies using dynamical models of the stellar kinematics. We compare 10 of our M_BH measurements, using integral-field OASIS kinematics, to published values. For a sample of 25 galaxies we confront our new M_BH derived using two modeling methods on the same OASIS data.
@article{arxiv.1001.3233,
title = {Testing Mass Determinations of Supermassive Black Holes via Stellar Kinematics},
author = {Michele Cappellari and Richard M. McDermid and R. Bacon and Roger L. Davies and P. T. de Zeeuw and Eric Emsellem and Jesus Falcon-Barroso and Davor Krajnovic and Harald Kuntschner and Reynier F. Peletier and Marc Sarzi and Remco C. E. van den Bosch and Glenn van de Ven},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.3233},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX. To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista and C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Ser., in press