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| Paper: |
Upper Limits on the Mass of Supermassive Black Holes from Archival Data of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph |
| Volume: |
396, Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks |
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49 |
| Authors: |
Beifiori, A.; Corsini, E.M.; Dalla Bontá, E.; Pizzella, A.; Coccato, L.; Sarzi, M.; Bertola, F. |
| Abstract: |
The growth of supermassive black holes (SBHs) appears to be closely linked with the formation of spheroids. There is a pressing need to acquire better statistics on SBH masses, since the existing samples are preferentially weighted toward early-type galaxies with very massive SBHs. With this motivation we started a project aimed at measuring upper limits on the mass of the SBHs that can be present in the center of all the nearby galaxies (D < 100 Mpc) for which STIS/G750M spectra are available in the HST archive. These upper limits will be derived by modeling the central emission-line widths ([N II] λλ 6548, 6583 Å, Hα, and [S II] λλ 6716, 6731 Å) observed over an aperture of ∼0. ″1 (R < 50 pc). |
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