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We test the evolution of the correlation between black hole mass and bulge velocity dispersion (M$_{\rm BH}-\sigma$), using a carefully selected sample of 14 Seyfert 1 galaxies at $z=0.36\pm0.01$. We measure velocity dispersion from stellar…

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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 find evidence that the mass MBH of central supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlates with the velocity dispersion sigma_GC of globular cluster systems of their host galaxies. This extends the well-known MBH - sigma_sph relation between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Raphael Sadoun , Jacques Colin

Correlations between the mass of a supermassive black hole and the properties of its host galaxy (e.g., total stellar mass (M*), luminosity (Lhost)) suggest an evolutionary connection. A powerful test of a co-evolution scenario is to…

We study the relations between the mass of the central black hole (BH) $M_{\rm BH}$, the dark matter halo mass $M_{\rm h}$, and the stellar-to-halo mass fraction $f_\star\propto M_\star/M_{\rm h}$ in a sample of $55$ nearby galaxies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 A. Marasco , G. Cresci , L. Posti , F. Fraternali , F. Mannucci , A. Marconi , F. Belfiore , S. M. Fall

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

The strongest and most universal scaling relation between a supermassive black hole and its host galaxy is known as the $M_\bullet-\sigma$ relation, where $M_\bullet$ is the mass of the central black hole and $\sigma$ is the stellar…

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…

Thanks to the angular resolution of modern telescopes and kinematic models, the existence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the inner part of galaxies has been established on quite solid grounds. A possible correlation between the mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-29 Luigi Mancini , Antonio Feoli

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with dynamically measured masses have shown empirical correlations with host galaxy properties. These correlations are often the only method available to estimate SMBH masses and gather statistics for large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Maggie C. Huber , Joseph Simon , Julia M. Comerford

Observational studies of nearby galaxies have demonstrated correlations between the mass of the central supermassive black holes (BHs) and properties of the host galaxies, notably the stellar bulge mass or central stellar velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Akos Bogdan , Andy D. Goulding

We use a restricted sample of elliptical galaxies, whose kinematical parameters inside the semimajor axis were calculated correcting the effect of the integration of the light along the line of sight, in order to analyze a possible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Feoli , D. Mele

Black hole masses are tightly correlated with the stellar velocity dispersions of the bulges which surround them, and slightly less-well correlated with the bulge luminosity. It is common to use these correlations to estimate the expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Tundo , M. Bernardi , J. B. Hyde , R. K. Sheth , A. Pizzella

In the last decades several correlations between the mass of the central supermassive black hole (BH) and properties of the host galaxy - such as bulge luminosity and mass, central stellar velocity dispersion, S\'ersic index, spiral pitch…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-24 Gerold Busch

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

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

The $M_{BH}$ - $\sigma_{\star}$ relation is considered a result of co-evolution between the host galaxies and their super-massive black holes. For elliptical-bulge hosting inactive galaxies, this relation is well established, but there is…

We report on recently derived improved versions of the relations between supermassive black hole mass (M_BH) and host-galaxy bulge velocity dispersion (sigma) and luminosity (L) (the M-sigma and M-L relations), based on ~50 M_BH…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-22 Kayhan Gultekin

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 use a recent sample of 49 galaxies to show that there is a proportionality relation between the black hole mass M_BH and the quantity \mu =M_G*\sigma /c, where M_G is mass of the spheroidal stellar component and \sigma is the stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Noam Soker , Yohai Meiron