Testing Mass Determinations of Supermassive Black Holes via Stellar Kinematics
Abstract
We investigate the accuracy of mass determinations MBH of supermassive black holes in galaxies using dynamical models of the stellar kinematics. We compare 10 of our MBH measurements, using integral-field OASIS kinematics, to published values. For a sample of 25 galaxies we confront our new MBH derived using two modeling methods on the same OASIS data.
- Publication:
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Hunting for the Dark: the Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation
- Pub Date:
- June 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3458489
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1001.3233
- Bibcode:
- 2010AIPC.1240..211C
- Keywords:
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- black holes;
- mass measurement;
- merging;
- adaptive optics;
- 98.62.Js;
- 98.62.Ck;
- 98.65.Fz;
- 95.75.Qr;
- Galactic nuclei circumnuclear matter and bulges;
- Masses and mass distribution;
- Galaxy mergers collisions and tidal interactions;
- Adaptive and segmented optics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX. To appear in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds. V.P. Debattista and C.C. Popescu, AIP Conf. Ser., in press