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Megamaser Disks Reveal a Broad Distribution of Black Hole Mass in Spiral Galaxies
Tekijät: J. E. Greene, A. Seth, M. Kim, R. Läsker, A. Goulding, F. Gao, J. A. Braatz, C. Henkel, J. Condon, K. Y. Lo, W. Zhao
Julkaisuvuosi: 2016
Lehti: Astrophysical Journal Letters
Lehden akronyymi: ApJ
Artikkelin numero: L32
Vuosikerta: 826
Numero: 2
Sivujen määrä: 6
ISSN: 2041-8205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/826/2/L32
We use new precision measurements of black hole (BH) masses from water
megamaser disks to investigate scaling relations between macroscopic
galaxy properties and supermassive BH mass. The megamaser-derived BH
masses span 106-108 {M}⊙ ,
while all the galaxy properties that we examine (including total stellar
mass, central mass density, and central velocity dispersion) lie within
a narrower range. Thus, no galaxy property correlates tightly with
{M}{BH} in ˜L* spiral galaxies as traced by megamaser
disks. Of them all, stellar velocity dispersion provides the tightest
relation, but at fixed {σ }* the mean megamaser
{M}{BH} are offset by -0.6 ± 0.1 dex relative to
early-type galaxies. Spiral galaxies with non-maser dynamical BH masses
do not appear to show this offset. At low mass, we do not yet know the
full distribution of BH mass at fixed galaxy property; the non-maser
dynamical measurements may miss the low-mass end of the BH distribution
due to an inability to resolve their spheres of influence and/or
megamasers may preferentially occur in lower-mass BHs.