A photometric method to determine supermassive black hole masses

Bibcode
2003RMxAC..17..196G
Graham, A. W.; Erwin, P.; Caon, N.; Trujillo, I.
Bibliographical reference

Galaxy Evolution: Theory & Observations (Eds. Vladimir Avila-Reese, Claudio Firmani, Carlos S. Frenk & Christine Allen) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 17, pp. 196-197 (2003) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)

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6
2003
Number of authors
4
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
25
Refereed citations
19
Description
We report the discovery of a strong correlation between the shape of a bulge's light-profile and the mass of its central supermassive black hole (Mbh). We find that log(Mbh/Msun) = 2.91(+/-0.38)log(n) + 6.37(+/-0.21), where n is the Sérsic r1/n shape index. This correlation is shown to be at least as strong as the relationship between the logarithm of the stellar velocity dispersion and log(Mbh) and has comparable scatter.
Type
Non-refereed
Galaxies

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