A SuperMassive Black Hole Fundamental Plane for Ellipticals

Details A SuperMassive Black Hole Fundamental Plane for Ellipticals A SuperMassive Black Hole Fundamental Plane for Ellipticals

2007-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/0705.1508v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/519560

We obtain the coefficients of a new fundamental plane for supermassive black holes at the centers of elliptical galaxies, involving measured central black hole mass and photometric parameters which define the light distribution. The galaxies are tightly distributed around this mass fundamental plane, with improvement in the rms residual over those obtained from the $\mbh-\sigma$ and $\mbh-L$ relations. This implies a strong multidimensional link between the central massive black hole formation and global photometric properties of elliptical galaxies and provides an improved estimate of black hole mass from galaxy data.

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