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arxiv: 1712.02470 · v1 · pith:36IUHAXUnew · submitted 2017-12-07 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

Improved dynamical constraints on the mass of the central black hole in NGC 404

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We determine the dynamical black hole mass in NGC404 including modeling of the nuclear stellar populations. We combine \hst/STIS spectroscopy with WFC3 images to create a local color-\ml~relation derived from stellar population modeling of the STIS data. We then use this to create a mass model for the nuclear region. We use Jeans modeling to fit this mass model to adaptive optics stellar kinematic observations from Gemini/NIFS. From our stellar dynamical modeling, we find a 3$\sigma$ upper limit on the black hole mass of $1.5\times10^5$\Msun.

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