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The Relation between Black Hole Mass, Bulge Mass, and Near-Infrared Luminosity

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arxiv astro-ph/0304274 v1 pith:3GS35C5S submitted 2003-04-15 astro-ph

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We present new accurate near-infrared (NIR) spheroid (bulge) structural parameters obtained by two-dimensional image analysis for all galaxies with a direct black hole (BH) mass determination. As expected, NIR bulge luminosities Lbul and BH masses are tightly correlated, and if we consider only those galaxies with secure BH mass measurement and accurate Lbul (27 objects), the spread of MBH-Lbul is similar to MBH-sigma, where sigma is the effective stellar velocity dispersion. We find an intrinsic rms scatter of ~0.3 dex in log MBH. By combining the bulge effective radii R_e measured in our analysis with sigma, we find a tight linear correlation (rms ~ 0.25 dex) between MBH and the virial bulge mass (propto R_e sigma^2), with <MBH/Mbul> ~ 0.002. A partial correlation analysis shows that MBH depends on both sigma and R_e, and that both variables are necessary to drive the correlations between MBH and other bulge properties.

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