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PRECISE BLACK HOLE MASSES FROM MEGAMASER DISKS: BLACK HOLE-BULGE RELATIONS AT LOW MASS
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The black hole (BH)–bulge correlations have greatly influenced the last decade of efforts to understand galaxy evolution. Current knowledge of these correlations is limited predominantly to high BH masses ( M BH ≳10 8 M ☉ ) that can be measured using direct stellar, gas, and maser kinematics. These objects, however, do not represent the demographics of more typical L < L * galaxies. This study transcends prior limitations to probe BHs that are an order of magnitude lower in mass, using BH mass measurements derived from the dynamics of H 2 O megamasers in circumnuclear disks. The masers trace the Keplerian rotation of circumnuclear molecular disks starting at radii of a few tenths of a pc from the central BH. Modeling of the rotation curves, presented by Kuo et al., yields BH masses with exquisite precision. We present stellar velocity dispersion measurements for a sample of nine megamaser disk galaxies based on long-slit observations using the B&C spectrograph on the Dupont telescope and the Dual Imaging Spectrograph on the 3.5 m telescope at Apache Point. We also perform bulge-to-disk decomposition of a subset of five of these galaxies with Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging. The maser galaxies as a group fall below the M BH –σ * relation defined by elliptical galaxies. We show, now with very precise BH mass measurements, that the low-scatter power-law relation between M BH and σ * seen in elliptical galaxies is not universal. The elliptical galaxy M BH –σ * relation cannot be used to derive the BH mass function at low mass or the zero point for active BH masses. The processes (perhaps BH self-regulation or minor merging) that operate at higher mass have not effectively established an M BH –σ * relation in this low-mass regime.
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- Authors
- Greene, J. E., Peng, C. Y., Kim, M., Kuo, C.-Y., Braatz, J. A., Impellizzeri, C. M. V., Condon, J. J., Lo, K. Y., Henkel, C., & Reid, M. J.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2010-08-26
- Volume
- 721
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 26-45
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2015305364
- Cited by
- 254
- References
- 121
- FWCI
- 14.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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