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We present a sample of 151 dwarf galaxies (10^8.5 < M_stellar < 10^9.5 Msun) that exhibit optical spectroscopic signatures of accreting massive black holes (BHs), increasing the number of known active galaxies in this stellar mass range by…

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We use QSO emission-line widths to examine the black hole mass - sigma relationship as a function of redshift and to extend the relationship to larger masses. Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei are closely related to the bulge of…

The masses of the central black holes in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) can be estimated using the broad emission-lines as a probe of the virial mass. Using reverberation mapping to determine the size of the Broad Line Region (BLR) and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Amri Wandel

Our knowledge of relations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies at $z\gtrsim1$ is still limited, even though being actively sought out to $z\sim6$. Here, we use the high resolution and sensitivity of JWST to measure the…

The tight correlations between the masses of supermassive black holes (BHs) and the properties of their host galaxies suggest that BHs coevolve with galaxies. However, what is the link between BH mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) and the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-21 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho

An improved transformation of the full width at half maxima (FWHM) of the [O III] 5007 line in AGNs to the stellar velocity dispersion, sigma, of the host galaxy is given. This significantly reduces the systematic errors in using the [O…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 C. Martin Gaskell

We investigate the relation between the central velocity dispersion, sigma_0, and the circular velocity, V_c, in galaxies. In addition to previously available data, we consider an observationally homogeneus sample of 52 high surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Pizzella , E. Dalla Bonta' , E. M. Corsini , L. Coccato , F. Bertola

We investigate the correlation between the mass of a central supermassive black hole and the total gravitational mass of the host galaxy (M_tot). The results are based on 43 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses from the Sloan Lens ACS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Kaushala Bandara , David Crampton , Luc Simard

We investigate the scaling relations between the supermassive black holes mass (M_bh) and the host bulge mass in elliptical galaxies, classical bulges, and pseudo-bulges. We use two-dimensional image analysis software BUDDA to obtain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-17 Jian Hu

We investigate the differences in the M(BH)-sigma relation derived recently by Ferrarese & Merritt (2000) and Gebhardt et al. (2000). The shallower slope found by the latter authors (3.75 vs. 4.8) is due partly to the use of a regression…

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

The black hole mass MBH is crucial in constraining the growth of supermassive BHs within their host galaxies. Since direct measurements of MBH with dynamical methods are restricted to a limited number of nearly quiescent nearby galaxies and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-22 M. Gliozzi , J. K. Williams , A. Akylas , I. E. Papadakis , O. I. Shuvo , A. Halavatkar , A. Alt

The masses of supermassive black holes at the centres of local galaxies appear to be tightly correlated with the mass and velocity dispersions of their galactic hosts. However, the local Mbh-Mstar relation inferred from dynamically measured…

Quiescent galaxies generally possess denser cores than star-forming galaxies with similar mass. As a measurement of the core density, the central stellar mass surface density within a radius of 1 kpc ($\Sigma_1$) was thus suggested to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-08 Cai-Na Hao , Xiaoyang Xia , Yong Shi , Rui Guo , Yanmei Chen , Shuai Feng , Junqiang Ge , Qiusheng Gu

A tight correlation of black hole mass and central velocity dispersion has been found recently for both active and quiescent galaxies. By applying this correlation, we develop a simple method to derive the inclination angles for a sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xue-Bing Wu , J. L. Han

Using $I$-band images of 35 nearby ($z<0.1$) type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) obtained with Hubble Space Telescope, selected from the 70-month Swift-BAT X-ray source catalog, we investigate the photometric properties of the host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Aaron J. Barth , Luis C. Ho

We present the results of broad-line region (BLR) dynamical modeling for eight high-mass active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the Seoul National University AGN Monitoring Project, by constraining BLR geometry and kinematics as well as black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo , Lizvette Villafaña , Tommaso Treu , Elena Gallo

We study the observational constraints on the cosmic evolution of the relationships between the massive black hole (MBH) mass (M_bh) and the stellar mass (M^*_sph; or velocity dispersion \sigma) of the host galaxy/spheroid. Assuming that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiaoxia Zhang , Youjun Lu , Qingjuan Yu

To examine the relationship between black hole mass and host galaxy velocity dispersion for low black hole masses, we have measured the velocity dispersions of 15 Seyfert 1 galaxies from the catalog of Greene & Ho (2004). These Seyferts…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Barth , J. E. Greene , L. C. Ho

We report the detection of broad Halpha emission in three X-ray selected obscured AGNs at z=1-2. By exploiting the Halpha width and the intrinsic X-ray luminosity, we estimate their black hole masses, which are in the range 0.1-3x10^9 Msun.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. E. Sarria , R. Maiolino , F. La Franca , F. Pozzi , F. Fiore , A. Marconi , C. Vignali , A. Comastri