Supermassive black holes from OASIS and SAURON integral-field kinematics
Abstract
Supermassive black holes are a key element in our understanding of how galaxies form. Most of the progress in this very active field of research is based on just ~30 determination of black hole masses, accumulated over the past decade. We illustrate how integral-field spectroscopy, and in particular our OASIS modeling effort can help improve the current situation.
- Publication:
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Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges
- Pub Date:
- July 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0709.2861
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..245..215C
- Keywords:
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- black hole physics;
- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics;
- galaxies: nuclei;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 2 figures, LaTeX. To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 245 "Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges", M. Bureau, E. Athanassoula, and B. Barbuy, eds