Woo, Jong-Hak and Schulze, Andreas and Park, Daeseong and Kang, Wol-Rang and Kim, Sang Chul and Riechers, Dominik A. (2013) Do Quiescent and Active Galaxies Have Different M_(BH)-σ* Relations? Astrophysical Journal, 772 (1). Art. No. 49. ISSN 0004-637X. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/772/1/49. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130815-101046591
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Abstract
To investigate the validity of the assumption that quiescent galaxies and active galaxies follow the same black hole mass (M_BH)-stellar velocity dispersion (σ*) relation, as required for the calibration of M_BH estimators for broad line active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we determine and compare the M_BH-σ* relations, respectively, for quiescent and active galaxies. For the quiescent galaxy sample, composed of 72 dynamical M_BH measurements, we update σ* for 28 galaxies using homogeneous H-band measurements that are corrected for galaxy rotation. For active galaxies, we collect 25 reverberation-mapped AGNs and improve σ* measurement for two objects. Combining the two samples, we determine the virial factor f, first by scaling the active galaxy sample to the M_BH-σ* relation of quiescent galaxies, and second by simultaneously fitting the quiescent and active galaxy samples, as f=5.1^(+1.5)_(-1.1) and f=5.9^(+2.1)_(-1.5), respectively. The M_BH-σ* relation of active galaxies appears to be shallower than that of quiescent galaxies. However, the discrepancy is caused by a difference in the accessible M_BH distribution at given σ*, primarily due to the difficulty of measuring reliable stellar velocity dispersion for the host galaxies of luminous AGNs. Accounting for the selection effects, we find that active and quiescent galaxies are consistent with following intrinsically the same M_BH-σ* relation.
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| Additional Information: | © 2013 American Astronomical Society. Received 2013 March 24; accepted 2013 May 14; published 2013 July 5. We thank the anonymous referee for constructive suggestions. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2012-006087). J.H.W acknowledges the support by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST). | |||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | galaxies: bulges; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; infrared: galaxies; techniques: spectroscopic | |||||||||
| Issue or Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1088/0004-637X/772/1/49 | |||||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20130815-101046591 | |||||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130815-101046591 | |||||||||
| Official Citation: | Do Quiescent and Active Galaxies Have Different M BH-σ* Relations? Jong-Hak Woo et al. 2013 ApJ 772 49 | |||||||||
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| Deposited On: | 16 Aug 2013 20:15 | |||||||||
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