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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 694, 期 2, 页码 L166-L170出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/694/2/L166
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galaxies: active; galaxies: nuclei; galaxies: photometry; galaxies: Seyfert
We investigate the relationship between black holemass and bulge luminosity for active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with reverberation-based black hole mass measurements and bulge luminosities from two-dimensional decompositions of Hubble Space Telescope host galaxy images. We find that the slope of the relationship for AGNs is 0.76-0.85 with an uncertainty of similar to 0.1, somewhat shallower than the M(BH) alpha L(1.0 +/- 0.1) relationship that has been fit to nearby quiescent galaxies with dynamical black hole mass measurements. This difference is somewhat perplexing, as the AGN black hole masses include an overall scaling factor that brings the AGN M(BH)-sigma(*) relationship into agreement with that of quiescent galaxies. We discuss biases that may be inherent to the AGN and quiescent galaxy samples and could cause the apparent inconsistency in the forms of their M(BH)-L(bulge) relationships. Recent work by Graham, however, presents a similar slope of similar to 0.8 for the quiescent galaxies and may bring the relationship for AGNs and quiescent galaxies into agreement.
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