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The popular log-linear relation between supermassive black hole mass, M_bh, and the dynamical mass of the host spheroid, M_sph, is shown to require a significant correction. Core galaxies, typically with M_bh > 2x10^8 M_Sun and thought to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alister W. Graham

We have examined the relationship between supermassive black hole mass (M$_{BH}$) and the stellar mass of the host spheroid (M$_{sph,*}$) for a sample of 75 nearby galaxies. To derive the spheroid stellar masses we used improved 2MASS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-04 Nicholas Scott , Alister W. Graham , James Schombert

Scaling relations between supermassive black hole mass, M_BH, and host galaxy properties are a powerful instrument for studying their coevolution. A complete picture involving all of the black hole scaling relations, in which each relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Giulia Savorgnan , Alister W. Graham , Alessandro Marconi , Eleonora Sani , Leslie K. Hunt , Marina Vika , Simon P. Driver

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

There is a growing array of supermassive black hole and nuclear star cluster scaling relations with their host spheroid, including a bent (black hole mass)-(host spheroid mass) M_bh-M_sph relation and different (massive compact object…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Alister W. Graham

From a sample of 72 galaxies with reliable supermassive black hole masses M_(bh), we derive the M_(bh)-(host spheroid luminosity, L) relation for (i) the subsample of 24 core-Sersic galaxies with partially depleted cores, and (ii) the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Alister W. Graham , Nicholas Scott

Using results from structural analysis of a sample of nearly 1000 local galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we estimate how the mass in central black holes is distributed amongst elliptical galaxies, classical bulges and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitri A. Gadotti , Guinevere Kauffmann

The (supermassive black hole mass, $M_\text{BH}$)-(bulge stellar mass, $M_{\rm*,sph}$) relation is, obviously, derived using two quantities. We endeavor to provide accurate values for the latter via detailed multicomponent galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Alister W. Graham , Ewan Cameron

We have re-examined the relation between the mass of the central black holes in nearby galaxies, M_bh, and the stellar mass of the surrounding spheroid or bulge, M_bulge. For a total of 30 galaxies bulge masses were derived through Jeans…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nadine Haering , Hans-Walter Rix

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

Several recent papers have reported on the occurrence of active galactic nuclei (AGN) containing under-massive black holes relative to a linear scaling relation between black hole mass (M_bh) and host spheroid stellar mass (M_sph,*).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Alister W. Graham , Nicholas Scott

We highlight the correlation between a galaxy's supermassive black hole mass and the Sersic-index of the host spheroid or bulge component. From our bulge-disk decompositions of 10 095 galaxies, drawn from the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Simon P. Driver , Alister W. Graham , Paul D. Allen , Jochen Liske

Supermassive black holes appear to be uniquely associated with galactic bulges. The mean ratio of black hole mass to bulge mass was until recently very uncertain, with ground based, stellar kinematical data giving a value roughly an order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Merritt , Laura Ferrarese

Supermassive black hole mass estimates are derived for 1743 galaxies from the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue using the recently revised empirical relation between supermassive black hole mass and the luminosity of the host spheroid. The MGC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marina Vika , Simon P. Driver , Alister W. Graham , Jochen Liske

Black hole mass ($M_{BH}$) scaling relations are typically derived using the properties of a galaxy's bulge and samples dominated by (high-mass) early-type galaxies. Studying late-type galaxies should provide greater insight into the mutual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Alister W. Graham , Ewan Cameron

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 reinvestigate the correlation between black hole mass and bulge concentration. With an increased galaxy sample, updated estimates of galaxy distances, black hole masses, and Sersic indices `n' - a measure of concentration - we perform a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 Alister W. Graham , Simon P. Driver

We provide a new estimate of the local supermassive black hole mass function using (i) the empirical relation between supermassive black hole mass and the Sersic index of the host spheroidal stellar system and (ii) the measured (spheroid)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-26 Alister W. Graham , Simon P. Driver , Paul D. Allen , Jochen Liske

[Abridged] We investigate the nature of the relations between black hole (BH) mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) and the central velocity dispersion ($\sigma$) and, for core-S\'ersic galaxies, the size of the depleted core ($R_{\rm b}$). Our sample of 144…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Bililign T. Dullo , Armando Gil de Paz , Johan H. Knapen

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
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