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The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue: The nearby supermassive black hole mass function

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arxiv astro-ph/0509704 v1 pith:Z5QYR4JA submitted 2005-09-23 astro-ph

Simon P. Driver , Alister W. Graham , Paul D. Allen , Jochen Liske This is my paper · ORCID
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We highlight the correlation between a galaxy's supermassive black hole mass and the Sersic-index of the host spheroid or bulge component. From our bulge-disk decompositions of 10 095 galaxies, drawn from the Millennium Galaxy Catalogue, we construct the local (z < 0.18) mass function of supermassive black holes. We compare our results to those of McLure & Dunlop (2004) and conclude that the mass density of supermassive black holes may be marginally higher than previously supposed. This increase is predominantly due to the inclusion of low mass and later-type bulges. More details will be presented in a forthcoming paper.

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