scholarly journals AGN mass estimates in large spectroscopic surveys: the effect of host galaxy light

2018 ◽  
Vol 618 ◽  
pp. A127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludovica Varisco ◽  
Tullia Sbarrato ◽  
Giorgio Calderone ◽  
Massimo Dotti
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Spectroscopic Analysis ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Analysis Software ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Virial Mass ◽  
Fitting In ◽  
Black Hole Masses ◽  
Line Fitting

Virial–based methods for estimating active supermassive black hole masses are now commonly used on extremely large spectroscopic quasar catalogs. Most spectral analyses, though, do not pay enough attention to the detailed continuum decomposition. To understand how this affects virial mass estimates, we test the influence of host galaxy light on them, along with a Balmer continuum component. A detailed fit with the new spectroscopic analysis software QSFIT demonstrates that the presence or absence of continuum components does not significantly affect the virial-based results for our sample. Taking a host galaxy component into consideration or not, instead, affects the emission line fitting in a more pronounced way at lower redshifts, where in fact we observe dimmer quasars and more visible host galaxies.

scholarly journals Quasars, Feedback, and Galaxy Formation

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S267) ◽  
pp. 421-428
Author(s):  
Philip F. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Galaxy Evolution ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Analytic Models ◽  
Black Hole Masses

AbstractRecent observations of tight correlations between supermassive black hole masses and the properties of their host galaxies demonstrate that black holes and bulges are co-eval and have motivated theoretical models in which feedback from AGN activity regulates the black hole and host galaxy evolution. Combining simulations, analytic models, and recent observations, answers to a number of questions are starting to take shape: how do AGN get triggered? How long do they live? What are typical light curves and what sets them? Is feedback necessary and/or sufficient to regulate BH growth? What effects does that feedback have on the host galaxy? On the host halo? All of this also highlights questions that remain wide open: how does gas get from a few pc to the AGN? What are the actual microphysical mechanisms of feedback? What is the tradeoff between stellar and AGN feedback? And, if there are different “modes” of feedback, where/when are each important?

scholarly journals Morphological evolution of supermassive black hole merger hosts and multimessenger signatures

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (3) ◽  
pp. 3629-3642
Author(s):  
Colin DeGraf ◽  
Debora Sijacki ◽  
Tiziana Di Matteo ◽  
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann ◽  
Greg Snyder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Star Formation ◽  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
Full Range ◽  
High Mass ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Galaxy Mergers ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole

ABSTRACT With projects such as Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) expected to detect gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers in the near future, it is key that we understand what we expect those detections to be, and maximize what we can learn from them. To address this, we study the mergers of supermassive black holes in the Illustris simulation, the overall rate of mergers, and the correlation between merging black holes and their host galaxies. We find these mergers occur in typical galaxies along the MBH−M* relation, and that between LISA and PTAs we expect to probe the full range of galaxy masses. As galaxy mergers can trigger star formation, we find that galaxies hosting low-mass black hole mergers tend to show a slight increase in star formation rates compared to a mass-matched sample. However, high-mass merger hosts have typical star formation rates, due to a combination of low gas fractions and powerful active galactic nucleus feedback. Although minor black hole mergers do not correlate with disturbed morphologies, major mergers (especially at high-masses) tend to show morphological evidence of recent galaxy mergers which survive for ∼500 Myr. This is on the same scale as the infall/hardening time of merging black holes, suggesting that electromagnetic follow-ups to gravitational wave signals may not be able to observe this correlation. We further find that incorporating a realistic time-scale delay for the black hole mergers could shift the merger distribution towards higher masses, decreasing the rate of LISA detections while increasing the rate of PTA detections.

An accreting < 105M⊙ black hole at the center of dwarf galaxy IC750

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S356) ◽  
pp. 376-376
Author(s):  
Ingyin Zaw
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Dwarf Galaxy ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Scaling Relations ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Seed Formation ◽  
Maser Emission ◽  
Water Masers

AbstractNuclear black holes in dwarf galaxies are important for understanding the low end of the supermassive black hole mass distribution and the black hole-host galaxy scaling relations. IC 750 is a rare system which hosts an AGN, found in ˜0.5% of dwarf galaxies, with circumnuclear 22 GHz water maser emission, found in ˜3–5% of Type 2 AGNs. Water masers, the only known tracer of warm, dense gas in the center parsec of AGNs resolvable in position and velocity, provide the most precise and accurate mass measurements of SMBHs outside the local group. We have mapped the maser emission in IC 750 and find that it traces a nearly edge-on warped disk, 0.2 pc in diameter. The central black hole has an upper limit mass of ˜1 × 105 M⊙ and a best fit mass of ˜8 × 104 M⊙, one to two orders of magnitude below what is expected from black hole-galaxy scaling relations. This has implications for models of black hole seed formation in the early universe, the growth of black holes, and their co-evolution with their host galaxies.

Substructure in black hole scaling diagrams and implications for the coevolution of black holes and galaxies

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S359) ◽  
pp. 37-39
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Davis ◽  
Nandini Sahu ◽  
Alister W. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Scaling Relations ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Stellar Velocity ◽  
Galaxy Sample ◽  
Evolutionary Paths ◽  
Black Hole Masses

AbstractOur multi-component photometric decomposition of the largest galaxy sample to date with dynamically-measured black hole masses nearly doubles the number of such galaxies. We have discovered substantially modified scaling relations between the black hole mass and the host galaxy properties, including the spheroid (bulge) stellar mass, the total galaxy stellar mass, and the central stellar velocity dispersion. These refinements partly arose because we were able to explore the scaling relations for various sub-populations of galaxies built by different physical processes, as traced by the presence of a disk, early-type versus late-type galaxies, or a Sérsic versus core-Sérsic spheroid light profile. The new relations appear fundamentally linked with the evolutionary paths followed by galaxies, and they have ramifications for simulations and formation theories involving both quenching and accretion.

scholarly journals The Dark Matter Halo Density Profile, Spiral Arm Morphology, and Supermassive Black Hole Mass of M33

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc S. Seigar
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Density Profile ◽  
Pitch Angle ◽  
Rotation Curve ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Virial Mass ◽  
Spiral Arm

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.

scholarly journals Supermassive black hole mass regulated by host galaxy morphology

2009 ◽  
Vol 400 (4) ◽  
pp. 1803-1807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Watabe ◽  
N. Kawakatu ◽  
M. Imanishi ◽  
T. T. Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Galaxy Morphology

scholarly journals Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S267) ◽  
pp. 151-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley M. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Reverberation Mapping ◽  
Line Region ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Black Hole Masses ◽  
Intrinsic Scatter ◽  
Direct And Indirect Methods

AbstractWe review briefly direct and indirect methods of measuring the masses of black holes in galactic nuclei, and then focus attention on supermassive black holes in active nuclei, with special attention to results from reverberation mapping and their limitations. We find that the intrinsic scatter in the relationship between the AGN luminosity and the broad-line region size is very small, ~0.11 dex, comparable to the uncertainties in the better reverberation measurements. We also find that the relationship between reverberation-based black hole masses and host-galaxy bulge luminosities also seems to have surprisingly little intrinsic scatter, ~0.17 dex. We note, however, that there are still potential systematics that could affect the overall mass calibration at the level of a factor of a few.

scholarly journals Linking the central engine to the jet properties in radio loud AGN

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (S313) ◽  
pp. 329-330
Author(s):  
A. Olguín-Iglesias ◽  
J. León-Tavares ◽  
V. Chavushyan ◽  
E. Valtaoja ◽  
C. Añorve ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Base Line ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Optical Telescope ◽  
Central Engine ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Relativistic Jet ◽  
Line Array

AbstractWe explore the connection between the black hole mass and its relativistic jet for a sample of radio-loud AGN (z < 1), in which the relativistic jet parameters are well estimated by means of long term monitoring with the 14m Metsähovi millimeter wave telescope and the Very Long Base-line Array (VLBA). NIR host galaxy images taken with the NOTCam on the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) and retrieved from the 2MASS all-sky survey allowed us to perform a detailed surface brightness decomposition of the host galaxies in our sample and to estimate reliable black hole masses via their bulge luminosities. We present early results on the correlations between black hole mass and the relativistic jet parameters. Our preliminary results suggest that the more massive the black hole is, the faster and the more luminous jet it produces.

A Photoionization Method for Estimating Black Hole Masses in Quasars

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (S342) ◽  
pp. 270-271
Author(s):  
C. Alenka Negrete ◽  
Deborah Dultzin ◽  
Paola Marziani ◽  
Jack W. Sulentic ◽  
M. L. Martínez-Aldama
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Broad Line ◽  
Reverberation Mapping ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Broad Line Region ◽  
Supermassive Black Hole ◽  
Line Region ◽  
Black Hole Masses

AbstractWe present a method that uses photoionization codes (CLOUDY) to estimate the supermassive black hole masses (MBH) for quasars at low and high redshift. This method is based on the determination of the physical conditions of the broad line region (BLR) using observational diagnostic diagrams from line ratios in the UV. We also considered that the density and metallicity of the BLR in quasars at high z could be different from those at the nearby Universe. The computed black hole masses obtained using this method are in agreement with those derived from the method of reverberation mapping.

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