Black hole mass and velocity dispersion of narrow line region in active galactic nuclei and narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies

Details Black hole mass and velocity dispersion of narrow line region in active galactic nuclei and narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies Black hole mass and velocity dispersion of narrow line region in active galactic nuclei and narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies

2001-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107528v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, including 2 figures, A&A accepted

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20011071

Controversy regarding whether Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) follow the same black hole --- galactic bulge relation as normal galaxies has been raised by Mathur et al. (2001) and Ferrarese et al. (2001). In this paper, the correlation between the black hole mass and the velocity dispersion of the narrow line region, indicated by the [OIII] line width for a heterogeneous sample of NLS1s, is examined. We show that the non-virial component subtracted [OIII] width, which may well represent the stellar velocity dispersion ($\sigma$), correlates with the estimated black hole mass $M_bh$, made using the empirical law for broad line region sizefrom the reverberation mapping measurements. Considering measurement errors, we find that the relation between $M_bh$ and the [OIII] width in active galactic nuclei (both NLS1s in this paper and normal Seyferts in Nelson 2000) is consistent with that defined in nearby hot galaxies (ellipticals and spiral bulge) but with more scatter. It seems that there is no clear difference in the relation between $M_bh$ and $\sigma$ (represented by the [OIII] width for AGN) in both NLS1s and normal broad line active galactic nuclei from the same relation defined by nearby hot galaxies.

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