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赝球和椭球中的黑洞:低质量下黑洞-球标度关系的变化

Black Holes in Pseudobulges and Spheroidals: A Change in the Black Hole-Bulge Scaling Relations at Low Mass

Jenny E. Greene, Luis C. Ho, Aaron J. Barth

摘要:

我们调查的黑洞质量和宿主星系的性质之间的关系,目前已知的星系核中最低的黑洞质量的活动星系。哈勃太空望远镜的成像证实了宿主星系具有相应的低光度;它们比L* 低1等。在形态学方面,样本中约60%的成员是以盘为主的,所有这些都与包含凸起或(更可能)假凸起相一致,而其余的是紧凑的系统,没有可辨别的盘成分。一般来说,星系的致密成分并不服从于巨型椭圆星系和经典星系球的基本平面,而是在给定光度下不太集中,很像球状星系。我们的研究结果有力地证实了经典核球不是核黑洞的必要条件。与此同时,在这个样本中观察到的黑洞与凸起质量的比率比在经典凸起中观察到的低近一个数量级。虽然M-西格玛关系似乎继续低质量,似乎黑洞星系的标度关系取决于星系的结构。

英文摘要:

We investigate the relationship between black hole mass and host galaxy properties for active galaxies with the lowest black hole masses currently known in galaxy nuclei. Hubble Space Telescope imaging confirms that the host galaxies have correspondingly low luminosity; they are ~1 mag below L*. In terms of morphology, ~60% of the members of the sample are disk-dominated, and all of these are consistent with containing a bulge or (more likely) pseudobulge, while the remainder are compact systems with no discernible disk component. In general the compact components of the galaxies do not obey the fundamental plane of giant elliptical galaxies and classical bulges, but rather are less centrally concentrated at a given luminosity, much like spheroidal galaxies. Our results strongly confirm that a classical bulge is not a requirement for a nuclear black hole. At the same time, the observed ratio of black hole to bulge mass is nearly an order of magnitude lower in this sample than that seen for classical bulges. While the M-sigma relation appears to continue to low mass, it seems that black hole-galaxy scaling relations do depend on galaxy structure.

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