Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-07-10
Astrophys.J. 543 (2000) L5
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 1 figure, ApJ Letters accepted, minor revisions
Scientific paper
10.1086/318174
Black hole (BH) masses that have been measured by reverberation mapping in active galaxies fall significantly below the correlation between bulge luminosity and BH mass determined from spatially resolved kinematics of nearby normal galaxies. This discrepancy has created concern that one or both techniques suffer from systematic errors. We show that BH masses from reverberation mapping are consistent with the recently discovered relationship between BH mass and galaxy velocity dispersion. Therefore the bulge luminosities are the probable source of the disagreement, not problems with either method of mass measurement. This result underscores the utility of the BH mass -- velocity dispersion relationship. Reverberation mapping can now be applied with increased confidence to galaxies whose active nuclei are too bright or whose distances are too large for BH searches based on spatially resolved kinematics.
Bender Ralf
Bower Gary
Dressler Alan
Faber Sandra M.
Filippenko Alexei
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