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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 698, 期 1, 页码 198-221出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/698/1/198
关键词
black hole physics; galaxies: general; galaxies: nuclei; galaxies: statistics; stellar dynamics
资金
- NASA [NAS 5-26555]
- NASA/HST [GO-5999, GO-6587, GO-6633, GO-7468, GO-9107]
We derive improved versions of the relations between supermassive black hole mass (MBH) and host-galaxy bulge velocity dispersion (sigma) and luminosity (L; the M-sigma and M-L relations), based on 49 M-BH measurements and 19 upper limits. Particular attention is paid to recovery of the intrinsic scatter (epsilon(0)) in both relations. We find log(M-BH/M-circle dot) = alpha + beta log(sigma/ 200 km s(-1)) with (alpha, beta, epsilon(0)) = (8.12 +/- 0.08, 4.24 +/- 0.41, 0.44 +/- 0.06) for all galaxies and (alpha, beta, epsilon(0)) = (8.23 +/- 0.08, 3.96 +/- 0.42, 0.31 +/- 0.06) for ellipticals. The results for ellipticals are consistent with previous studies, but the intrinsic scatter recovered for spirals is significantly larger. The scatter inferred reinforces the need for its consideration when calculating local black hole mass function based on the M-sigma relation, and further implies that there may be substantial selection bias in studies of the evolution of the M-sigma relation. We estimate the M-L relationship as log(M-BH/M-circle dot) = alpha + beta log(L-V/10(11) L-circle dot,L- V) of (alpha, beta, epsilon(0)) = (8.95 +/- 0.11, 1.11 +/- 0.18, 0.38 +/- 0.09); using only early-type galaxies. These results appear to be insensitive to a wide range of assumptions about the measurement errors and the distribution of intrinsic scatter. We show that culling the sample according to the resolution of the black hole's sphere of influence biases the relations to larger mean masses, larger slopes, and incorrect intrinsic residuals.
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