Gas disks and supermassive black holes in nearby radio galaxies

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Nov 2004

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The Interplay among Black Holes, Stars and ISM in Galactic Nuclei, Proceedings of IAU Symposium, No. 222. Edited by T. Storchi-B

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We present the initial results of our analysis of line emission produced in gas disks found at the centers of a sample of nearby radio galaxies with radio jets. We obtained data using STIS (The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph) at three parallel slit positions on the nucleus of each galaxy. This allows us to map the Hα + [NII] flux, the gas radial velocity and the velocity dispersion. We found that we cannot rule out a rotating disk model for the gas in any case. We found that for 62% of the galaxies the fit is improved in the nucleus by the inclusion of an additional broad component. By comparing the observed central kinematics to model gas disks we were able to estimate the masses of nuclear black holes in 12 of the sample galaxies.

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