The Origin of the Relationship between Black Hole Mass and Host Galaxy Bulge Luminosity

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.

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Supermassive black hole mass regulated by host galaxy morphology

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ◽

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15345.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 400 (4) ◽

pp. 1803-1807 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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

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Toward Precision Measurement of Central Black Hole Masses

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921310006095 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 5 (S267) ◽

pp. 151-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

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.

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Observations of the γ-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1, SBS 0846+513, and its host galaxy

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ◽

10.1093/mnras/stab1046 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Timothy S Hamilton ◽

Marco Berton ◽

Sonia Antón ◽

Lorenzo Busoni ◽

Alessandro Caccianiga ◽

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Keyword(s):

Black Hole ◽

Adaptive Optics ◽

Host Galaxy ◽

Narrow Line ◽

Black Hole Mass ◽

Residual Structure ◽

Line Region ◽

Resolution Imaging ◽

Γ Ray ◽

Adaptive Optics System

Abstract The γ-ray emitting galaxy SBS 0846 + 513 has been classified as a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) from its spectroscopy, and on that basis would be thought likely to have a small central black hole hosted in a spiral galaxy. But very few of the γ-ray NLS1 have high-resolution imaging of their hosts, so it is unknown how the morphology expectation holds up for the γ-emitting class. We have observed this galaxy in the J-band with the Large Binocular Telescope’s LUCI1 camera and the ARGOS adaptive optics system. We estimate its black hole mass to lie between $4.2\times 10^7 \le \frac{\text{M}}{\text{M}_\odot } \le 9.7\times 10^7$, using the correlation with bulge luminosity, or $1.9\times 10^7 \le \frac{\text{M}}{\text{M}_\odot } \le 2.4\times 10^7$ using the correlation with Sérsic index. Our favoured estimate is 4.2 × 107M⊙, putting its mass at the high end of the NLS1 range in general but consistent with others that are γ-ray emitters. These estimates are independent of the Broad Line Region viewing geometry and avoid any underestimates due to looking down the jet axis. Its host shows evidence of a bulge + disc structure, from the isophote shape and residual structure in the nuclear-subtracted image. This supports the idea that γ-ray NLS1 may be spiral galaxies, like their non-jetted counterparts.

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

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s1743921315002446 ◽

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.

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The Relationship Between Black Hole Mass and Velocity Dispersion in Seyfert 1 Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal ◽

10.1086/424657 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 615 (2) ◽

pp. 652-661 ◽

Cited By ~ 120

Author(s):

Charles H. Nelson ◽

Richard F. Green ◽

Gary Bower ◽

Karl Gebhardt ◽

Donna Weistrop

Keyword(s):

Black Hole ◽

Velocity Dispersion ◽

Black Hole Mass ◽

The Relationship

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The Black Hole Mass vs Bulge Mass Relationship in Spiral Galaxies

Symposium - International Astronomical Union ◽

10.1017/s0074180900220421 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 205 ◽

pp. 58-61

Author(s):

Alessandro Marconi ◽

David Axon ◽

John Atkinson ◽

James Binney ◽

Alessandro Capetti ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Black Hole ◽

Spatial Resolution ◽

Mass Concentration ◽

Rotation Curve ◽

Spiral Galaxies ◽

Surface Photometry ◽

Black Hole Mass ◽

Limited Sample ◽

First Results ◽

The Relationship

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.

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