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Compact nuclear objects and properties of their parent galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2015-06-18 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We consider the relationship between the masses of the compact nuclear objects in the centers of disky galaxies -- supermassive black holes (SMBHs) or nuclear star clusters (NCs) -- and such parameters as the maximal velocity of rotation VmaxV_{\textrm{max}}, obtained from the rotation curves, indicative dynamical mass M25M_{25}, and the color index (BVB{-}V) of their parent galaxies. It was found that the mass of nuclear clusters MncM_{\rm nc} correlates more closely with the velocity of rotation and total mass of galaxies than the mass of supermassive black holes MbhM_{\rm bh}. The dependence of masses of the central objects on the color index is bimodal: galaxies of the red group (red-sequence), which have (BV)>0.60.7B{-}V) > 0.6{-}0.7, differ from bluer galaxies, by higher values of MbhM_{\rm bh} for similar host-galaxy parameters. In contrast, in the diagrams for nuclear clusters the "blue" and "red" galaxies form unified sequences. It agrees with scenarios in which most red-group galaxies form as a result of loss of interstellar gas in a stage of high nuclear activity in galaxies whose central black-hole masses are high, exceeding 106107M10^6 {-} 10^7 M_{\odot} (depending on the total mass of the galaxy). The active growth of nuclear star clusters possibly begun after the violent AGN activity.

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@article{arxiv.1312.6779,
  title  = {Compact nuclear objects and properties of their parent galaxies},
  author = {Anatoly Zasov and Anatoly Cherepashchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6779},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures; to be published in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium no. 304, "Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies", eds. Areg Mickaelian, Felix Aharonian, & David Sanders

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