Bibcode
Krajnović, D.; Cappellari, Michele; McDermid, Richard M.; Thater, Sabine; Nyland, Kristina; de Zeeuw, P. T.; Falcón-Barroso, J.; Khochfar, Sadegh; Kuntschner, Harald; Sarzi, Marc; Young, Lisa M.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 477, Issue 3, p.3030-3064
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2018
Citations
45
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41
Description
We present mass estimates of supermassive black holes in six nearby fast
rotating early-type galaxies (NGC 4339, NGC 4434, NGC 4474, NGC 4551,
NGC 4578, and NGC 4762) with effective stellar velocity dispersion
around 100 km s-1. We use near-infrared laser-guide adaptive
optics observations with the GEMINI/NIFS to derive stellar kinematics in
the galactic nuclei, and SAURON observations from the ATLAS3D
Survey for large-scale kinematics. We build axisymmetric Jeans
anisotropic models and axisymmetric Schwarzschild dynamical models. Both
modelling approaches recover consistent orbital anisotropies and black
hole masses within 1σ-2σ confidence level, except for one
galaxy for which the difference is just above the 3σ level. Two
black holes (NGC 4339 and NGC 4434) are amongst the largest outliers
from the current black hole mass-velocity dispersion relation, with
masses of (4.3^{+4.8}_{-2.3})× 10^7 and (7.0^{+2.0}_{-2.8})×
10^7 M⊙, respectively (3σ confidence level). The
black holes in NGC 4578 and NGC 4762 lie on the scaling relation with
masses of (1.9^{+0.6}_{-1.4})× 10^7 and (2.3^{+0.9}_{-0.6})×
10^7 M⊙, respectively (3σ confidence level). For
two galaxies (NGC 4474 and NGC 4551), we are able to place upper limits
on their black holes masses (<7 × 106 and <5
× 106 M⊙, respectively, 3σ
confidence level). The kinematics for these galaxies clearly indicate
central velocity dispersion drops within a radius of 35 and 80 pc,
respectively. These drops cannot be associated with cold stellar
structures and our data do not have the resolution to exclude black
holes with masses an order of magnitude smaller than the predictions.
Parametrizing the orbital distribution in spherical coordinates, the
vicinity of the black holes is characterized by isotropic or mildly
tangential anisotropy.
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