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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sahu, Nandini
• Graham, Alister W.
• Davis, Benjamin L.

Titel

Defining the (Black Hole)-Spheroid Connection with the Discovery of Morphology-dependent Substructure in the MBH-nsph and MBH-Re,sph Diagrams: New Tests for Advanced Theories and Realistic Simulations

Ist Teil von

• The Astrophysical journal, 2020-11, Vol.903 (2)

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: The American Astronomical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• For 123 local galaxies with directly measured black hole masses (MBH), we provide the host spheroid's Sérsic index (nsph), effective half-light radius (Re,sph), and effective surface brightness ( ), obtained from careful multicomponent decompositions, and we use these to derive the morphology-dependent MBH-nsph and MBH-Re,sph relations. We additionally present the morphology-dependent M*,sph-nsph and M*,sph-Re,sph relations. We explored differences due to early-type galaxies (ETGs) versus late-type galaxies (LTGs), Sérsic versus core-Sérsic galaxies, barred versus non-barred galaxies, and galaxies with and without a stellar disk. We detect two different MBH-nsph relations due to ETGs and LTGs with power-law slopes 3.95 0.34 and 2.85 0.31. We additionally quantified the correlation between MBH and the spheroid's central concentration index, which varies monotonically with the Sérsic index. Furthermore, we observe a single, near-linear M*,sph- relation for ETGs and LTGs, which encompasses both classical and alleged pseudobulges. In contrast, ETGs and LTGs define two distinct MBH-Re,sph relations with (cf. ∼0.51 dex for the MBH- relation and ∼0.58 dex for the MBH-M*,sph relation), and the ETGs alone define two steeper MBH-Re,sph relations, offset by ∼1 dex in the direction, depending on whether they have a disk or not and explaining their similar offset in the MBH-M*,sph diagram. This trend holds using 10%, 50%, or 90% radii. These relations offer pivotal checks for simulations trying to reproduce realistic galaxies, and for theoretical studies investigating the dependence of black hole mass on basic spheroid properties.