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For galaxies hosting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), it has been observed that the mass of the central black hole (M_BH) tightly correlates with the effective or central velocity dispersion (sigma) of the host galaxy. The origin of this…

Understanding whether the bulge or the halo provides the primary link to the growth of supermassive black holes has strong implications for galaxy evolution and supermassive black hole formation itself. In this paper, we approach this issue…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vincenzo Pota , Alister W. Graham , Duncan A. Forbes , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Jean P. Brodie , Jay Strader

Elliptical, lenticular, and early-type spiral galaxies show a remarkably tight power-law correlation between the mass M_BH of their central supermassive black hole (SMBH) and the number N_GC of globular clusters: M_BH=m*N_GC^(1.08+/-0.04)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andreas Burkert , Scott Tremaine

We describe a correlation between the mass M_BH of a galaxy's central black hole and the luminosity-weighted line-of-sight velocity dispersion sigma_e within the half-light radius. The result is based on a sample of 26 galaxies, including…

The masses of supermassive black holes correlate almost perfectly with the velocity dispersions of their host bulges, M(BH) ~ sigma^alpha, where alpha =4.8 +/- 0.5$. The relation is much tighter than the relation between M(BH) and bulge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Laura Ferrarese , David Merritt

We investigate the correlation between the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) mass ($M_{\rm bh}$) and the stellar velocity dispersion ($\sigma_*$) in two types of host galaxies: the early-type bulges (disk galaxies with classical bulges or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Hu

Empirical evidence for both stellar mass black holes M_bh<10^2 M_sun) and supermassive black holes (SMBHs, M_bh>10^5 M_sun) is well established. Moreover, every galaxy with a bulge appears to host a SMBH, whose mass is correlated with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Margarita Safonova , Prajval Shastri

The possibility that the masses of supermassive black holes (SBHs) correlate with the total gravitational mass of their host galaxy, or the mass of the dark matter halo in which they presumably formed, is investigated using a sample of 16…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Laura Ferrarese

We derive an M_bh-sigma relation between supermassive black hole mass and stellar velocity dispersion in galaxy bulges, that results from self-regulated, energy-conserving feedback. The relation is of the form M_bh v_w \propto sigma^5,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Rachael C McQuillin , Dean E McLaughlin

Growing evidence indicate supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the mass range of $M_{\rm BH}$$\sim 10^6-10^{10}M_{\odot}$ lurking in central bulges of many galaxies. Extensive observations reveal fairly tight power laws of $M_{\rm BH}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Yu-Qing Lou , Yan-Fei Jiang

We investigate the relation between circular velocity vc and bulge velocity dispersion sigma in spiral galaxies, based on literature data and new spectroscopic observations. We find a strong, nearly linear vc-sigma correlation with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maarten Baes , Herwig Dejonghe , Pieter Buyle , Laura Ferrarese , Gianfranco Gentile

We present new velocity dispersion measurements of sample of 12 spiral galaxies for which extended rotation curves are available. These data are used to refine a recently discovered correlation between the circular velocity and the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maarten Baes , Pieter Buyle , George K. T. Hau , Herwig Dejonghe

We explore the connection between the central supermassive blackholes (SMBH) in galaxies and the dark matter halo through the relation between the masses of the SMBHs and the maximum circular velocities of the host galaxies, as well as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Bassem M. Sabra , Charbel Saliba , Maya Abi Akl , Gilbert Chahine

We use a large sample of upper limits and accurate estimates of supermassive black holes masses coupled with libraries of host galaxy velocity dispersions, rotational velocities and photometric parameters extracted from Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Beifiori , S. Courteau , E. M. Corsini , Y. Zhu

The masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs, M_BH=10^6-10^11 Msun) in the centres of galaxies are related to the host stellar spheroid mass and velocity dispersion. A key question is how these relations originate, and over which range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Nora Lützgendorf

There have been reports of possible detections of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in globular clusters (GCs). Empirically, there exists a tight correlation between the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass and the mean velocity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Yu-Qing Lou , Yi-Hong Wu

The correlation between black hole mass M(BH) and the central stellar velocity dispersion sigma in nearby elliptical galaxies affords a novel way to determine M(BH) in active galaxies. We report on measurements of sigma from optical spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. K. Kotilainen , R. Falomo , A. Treves

Observations have shown that supermassive black holes in nearby elliptical galaxies correlate tightly with the stellar velocity dispersion (the $\MBH - \sigma$ relation) and the stellar mass (the $\MBH - \Mhost$ relation) of their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-31 Sydney Sherman , Mouyuan Sun , Qirong Zhu , Jonathan R. Trump , Yuexing Li

Recent work has demonstrated that there is a tight correlation between the mass of a black hole and the velocity dispersion of the bulge of its host galaxy. We show that the model of Kauffmann & Haehnelt, in which bulges and supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin G. Haehnelt , Guinevere Kauffmann

We study the correlations between Supermassive Black Holes (BH) and their host galaxies, using a sample of 83 BH masses collected from the most recent and reliable spatially resolved estimates available from the literature. We confirm the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Stefano de Nicola , Alessandro Marconi , Giuseppe Longo
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