scholarly journals The Black Hole Mass vs Bulge Mass Relationship in Spiral Galaxies

2001 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 58-61
Author(s):  
Alessandro Marconi ◽  
David Axon ◽  
John Atkinson ◽  
James Binney ◽  
Alessandro Capetti ◽  
...  

We describe an on-going HST program aimed at determining the relationship between the nuclear black hole mass and bulge mass in spiral galaxies. We have selected a volume limited sample of 54 nearby spiral galaxies for which we already have ground based emission line rotation curves, CCD surface photometry and radio maps. We are now obtaining HST/STIS longslit observations of each of the galaxies in the sample in order to determine the nuclear Hα rotation curve at high (∼ 0.1) spatial resolution. We will use these data to measure the unresolved dark mass concentration at the nucleus of each object. Here we show the first results from observations of objects in the sample.

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc S. Seigar

We investigate the dark matter halo density profile of M33. We find that the HI rotation curve of M33 is best described by an NFW dark matter halo density profile model, with a halo concentration of and a virial mass of . We go on to use the NFW concentration of M33, along with the values derived for other galaxies (as found in the literature), to show that correlates with both spiral arm pitch angle and supermassive black hole mass.


2018 ◽  
Vol 869 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Davis ◽  
Alister W. Graham ◽  
Ewan Cameron

2004 ◽  
Vol 615 (2) ◽  
pp. 652-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles H. Nelson ◽  
Richard F. Green ◽  
Gary Bower ◽  
Karl Gebhardt ◽  
Donna Weistrop

2019 ◽  
Vol 873 (1) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Davis ◽  
Alister W. Graham ◽  
Ewan Cameron

2005 ◽  
Vol 635 (2) ◽  
pp. 853-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Borys ◽  
Ian Smail ◽  
S. C. Chapman ◽  
A. W. Blain ◽  
D. M. Alexander ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 789 (2) ◽  
pp. 124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Davis ◽  
Joel C. Berrier ◽  
Lucas Johns ◽  
Douglas W. Shields ◽  
Matthew T. Hartley ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 826 (2) ◽  
pp. L32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Greene ◽  
A. Seth ◽  
M. Kim ◽  
R. Läsker ◽  
A. Goulding ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Martin Gaskell ◽  
Daniel J. Whalen ◽  
Volker Bromm ◽  
Naoki Yoshida

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (08) ◽  
pp. 1261-1272 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. FEOLI ◽  
D. MELE

We support, with new fitting instruments and the analysis of more recent experimental data, the proposal of a relationship between the mass of a Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) and the kinetic energy of random motions in the host elliptical galaxy. The first results obtained in a previous paper with 13 elliptical galaxies are now confirmed by the new data and an enlarged sample. We find MBH ∝ (MGσ2/c2)β with 0.8 ≤ β ≤ 1 depending on the different fitting methods and samples used. The meaningful case β = 1 is carefully analyzed. Furthermore, we test the robustness of our relationship, including in the sample also lenticular and spiral galaxies and we show that the result does not change. Finally, we find a stronger correlation between the mass of the galaxy and the corresponding velocity dispersion that allows us to connect our relationship to the MBH ∝ σα law. With respect to this law, our relationship has the advantage of having a smaller scatter.


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