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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

The hierarchical build-up of galactic bulges should lead to the build-up of present-day supermassive black holes by a mixture of gas accretion and merging of supermassive black holes. The tight relation between black hole mass and stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 Martin G. Haehnelt

Recent studies have suggested a strong correlation between the masses of nuclear star clusters and their host galaxies, an extension of the known correlations between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies. By focusing on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Peter Erwin , Dimitri Gadotti

Coevolution between supermassive black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies is universally adopted in models for galaxy formation. In the absence of feedback from active galactic nuclei, simulated massive galaxies keep forming stars in the…

In this paper, we explore the establishment and evolution of the empirical correlation between black hole mass and velocity dispersion with redshift. We track the growth and accretion history of massive black holes starting from high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan

It is common to estimate black hole abundances by using a measured correlation between black hole mass and another more easily measured observable such as the velocity dispersion or luminosity of the surrounding bulge. The correlation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 M. Bernardi , R. K. Sheth , E. Tundo , J. B. Hyde

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

We study black hole - host galaxy correlations, and the relation between the over-massiveness (the distance from the average $M_{BH}-\sigma$ relation) of super-massive black holes (SMBHs) and star formation histories of their host galaxies…

We present new and stronger evidence for a previously reported relationship between galactic spiral arm pitch angle P (a measure of the tightness of spiral structure) and the mass M_BH of a disk galaxy's nuclear supermassive black hole…

With references to both key and oft-forgotten pioneering works, this article starts by presenting a review into how we came to believe in the existence of massive black holes at the centres of galaxies. It then presents the historical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 Alister W. Graham

We present HST images for nine megamaser disk galaxies with the primary goal of studying photometric BH-galaxy scaling relations. The megamaser disks provide the highest-precision extragalactic BH mass measurements, while our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-06 Ronald Läsker , Jenny E. Greene , Anil Seth , Glenn van de Ven , James A. Braatz , Christian Henkel , K. Y. Lo

In the present-day universe, supermassive black hole masses (MBH) appear to be strongly correlated with their galaxy's bulge luminosity, among other properties. In this study, we explore the analogous relationship between MBH, derived using…

In this paper, we examine if the properties of central black holes in galactic nuclei correlate with their host dark matter halo. We analyze the entire sample of galaxies where black hole mass, velocity dispersion, sigma, and asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan , Kayhan Gultekin

According to the Virial Theorem, all gravitational systems in equilibrium sit on a plane in the 3D parameter space defined by their mass, size and second moment of the velocity tensor. While these quantities cannot be directly observed,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-07 Remco van den Bosch

We explore several correlations between various large-scale galaxy properties, particularly total globular cluster population (N_GCS), the central black hole mass (M_BH), velocity dispersion (nominally sigma_e), and bulge mass (M_dyn). Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Gretchen L. H. Harris , Gregory B. Poole , William E. Harris

We show that the relation between the mass of supermassive black holes located in the center of the host galaxies and the kinetic energy of random motions of the corresponding bulges is a useful tool to study the evolution of galaxies. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Antonio Feoli , Luigi Mancini

We investigate the evolution of the MBH-{\sigma} relation by examining the relationship between the intrinsic scatter in the MBH-{\sigma} relation and galaxy bolometric nuclear luminosity, the latter being a probe of the accretion rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-04 Gongjie Li , Charlie Conroy , Abraham Loeb

We examine the black hole mass - galaxy bulge relationship in high-redshift QSOs. Black hole masses are derived from the broad emission lines, and the host galaxy stellar velocity dispersion sigma is estimated from the widths of the radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. A. Shields , K. L. Menezes , C. A. Massart , P. Vanden Bout

We present a new relationship between central black hole (BH) mass and host galaxy stellar bulge mass extending to the lowest BH masses known in dwarf galaxies ($M_{\rm BH} \lesssim 10^{5} M_{\odot}$; $M_{\star} \sim 10^{9} M_{\odot}$). We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Zachary Schutte , Amy Reines , Jenny Greene

The central black-hole masses of a sample of 30 luminous quasars are estimated using H-beta FWHM measurements from a combination of new and previously-published nuclear spectra. The quasar black-hole mass estimates are combined with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. McLure , J. S. Dunlop