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We present an estimate of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby type-1 Seyfert galaxy \object{NGC 1097} using Atacamma Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of dense gas kinematics. Dense molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Kyoko Onishi , Satoru Iguchi , Kartik Sheth , Kotaro Kohno

The determination of the central black hole mass is crucial to the understanding of AGN physics. In this paper we briefly review some methods that are currently used to estimate the black hole mass of AGNs. Particularly we demonstrate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xue-Bing Wu , F. K. Liu , R. Wang , M. Z. Kong , J. L. Han

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

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 present evidence for a strong correlation between the concentration of bulges and the mass of their central supermassive black hole (M_bh) -- more concentrated bulges have more massive black holes. Using C_{r_e}(1/3) from Trujillo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alister W. Graham , Peter Erwin , Nicola Caon , Ignacio Trujillo

We demonstrate a strong correlation between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass and the global structure of ellipticals and bulges: more centrally concentrated bulges and ellipticals (higher Sersic index $n$) host higher-mass black holes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Erwin , Alister W. Graham , Nicola Caon

Using different kinds of velocity tracers derived from the broad H$\beta$ profile (in the mean or rms spectrum) and the corresponding virial factors $f$, the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses ($M_{\rm BH}$) are calculated for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Li-Ming Yu , Wei-Hao Bian , Xue-Guang Zhang , Bi-Xuan Zhao , Chan Wang , Xue Ge , Bing-Qian Zhu , Yu-Qin Chen

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 report on the relation between the mass of supermassive black holes (SMBHs; M_BH) and that of hosting dark matter halos (M_h) for 49 z ~ 6 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) with [CII]158um velocity-width measurements. Here, we estimate M_h…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-26 Kazuhiro Shimasaku , Takuma Izumi

Recently, the relation between the masses of the black hole ($M_{BH}$) and the host galaxy ($M_{host}$) in quasars has been probed down to the parameter space of $M_{BH}\sim10^8 M_\odot$ and $M_{host}\sim10^{11} M_\odot$ at z $<$ 0.5. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-14 Jimit Sanghvi , Jari Kotilainen , Renato Falomo , Roberto Decarli , Kalle Karhunen , Michela Uslenghi

We investigate the relationship between black hole mass and bulge luminosity for AGNs with reverberation-based black hole mass measurements and bulge luminosities from two-dimensional decompositions of Hubble Space Telescope host galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Misty C. Bentz , Bradley M. Peterson , Richard W. Pogge , Marianne Vestergaard

Using bonafide black hole (BH) mass estimates from reverberation mapping and the line ratio [Si VI]1.963$\mu$m/Br$\gamma_{\rm broad}$ as tracer of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) ionizing continuum, we find a novel BH-mass scaling relation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-30 Swayamtrupta Panda , Alberto Rodríguez Ardila

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies are generally thought to coevolve, so that the SMBH achieves up to about 0.2 to 0.5% of the host galaxy mass in the present day. The radiation emitted from the growing SMBH is…

Type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent the majority of the AGN population. However, due to the difficulties in measuring their black hole (BH) masses, it is still unknown whether they follow the same BH mass-host galaxy scaling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 F. Ricci , F. La Franca , A. Marconi , F. Onori , F. Shankar , R. Schneider , E. Sani , S. Bianchi , A. Bongiorno , M. Brusa , F. Fiore , R. Maiolino , C. Vignali

We investigate the relationship between black hole mass and host galaxy velocity dispersion for QSOs in Data Release 3 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We derive black hole mass from the broad Hbeta line width and continuum luminosity, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 S. Salviander , G. A. Shields , K. Gebhardt , E. W. Bonning

Supermassive black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies are interlinked by virtue of feedbacks and are thought to be co-eval across the Hubble time. This relation is highlighted by an approximate proportionality between the BH mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-01 Evgenii O. Vasiliev , Yuri A. Shchekinov , Biman B. Nath

We derive the growth of SMBHs relative to the stellar content of their host galaxy predicted under the assumption of BH accretion triggered by galaxy encounters occurring during their merging histories. We show that, within this framework,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alessandra Lamastra , Nicola Menci , Roberto Maiolino , Fabrizio Fiore , Andrea Merloni

We have studied the host galaxies of a sample of radio-loud AGN spanning more than four decades in the energy output of the nucleus. The core sample includes 40 low-power sources (BL Lac objects) and 22 high-power sources (radio-loud…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Matthew O'Dowd , C. Megan Urry , Riccardo Scarpa

Radio emission from early-type (E and S0) galaxies usually signals the presence of a central supermassive black hole. If radio luminosity and black-hole mass are correlated, then we can use the large sample of radio galaxies observed in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elaine M. Sadler