A catalogue of nuclear stellar velocity dispersions of nearby galaxies from H$��$ STIS spectra to constrain supermassive black hole masses
| Autor: | Ilaria Pagotto, Alessandro Pizzella, L. Morelli, Marc Sarzi, Enrico Maria Corsini, Bruno Pagani, Elena Dalla Bontà |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Physics
Supermassive black hole Stellar kinematics 010308 nuclear & particles physics Sigma Velocity dispersion FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies 01 natural sciences Galaxy Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) 0103 physical sciences Content (measure theory) Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics Lenticular galaxy Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1811.03160 |
| Popis: | We present new measurements for the nuclear stellar velocity dispersion $\sigma_{\ast}$ within sub-arcsecond apertures for 28 nearby galaxies. Our data consist of Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) long-slit spectra obtained with the G750M grating centred on the H$\alpha$ spectral range. We fit the spectra using a library of single stellar population models and Gaussian emission lines, while constraining in most cases the stellar-population content from an initial fit to G430L STIS spectra. We illustrate how these $\sigma_{\ast}$ measurements can be useful for constraining the mass $M_{\bullet}$ of supermassive black holes (SBHs) by concentrating on the cases of the lenticular galaxies NGC4435 and NGC4459. These are characterized by similar ground-based half-light radii stellar velocity dispersion $\sigma_{\rm e}$ values but remarkably different $M_{\bullet}$ as obtained from modelling their central ionised-gas kinematics, where NGC4435 appears to host a significantly undermassive SBH compared to what is expected from the $M_{\bullet}-\sigma_{\rm e}$ relation. For both galaxies, we build Jeans axisymmetric dynamical models to match the ground-based stellar kinematics obtained with SAURON integral-field spectrograph, including a SBH with $M_{\bullet}$ value as predicted by the $M_{\bullet}-\sigma_{\rm e}$ relation and using high-resolution HST images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to construct the stellar-mass model. By mimicking the HST observing conditions we use such reference models to make a prediction for the nuclear $\sigma_{\ast}$ value. Whereas this was found to agree with our nuclear $\sigma_{\ast}$ measurement for NGC4459, for NGC4435 the observed $\sigma_{\ast}$ is remarkably smaller than the predicted one, which further suggests that this galaxy could host an undermassive SBH. Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS accepted |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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