Host galaxies and black hole masses of low and high luminosity radio loud active nuclei

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2003-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304190v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 343 (2003) 505

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 7 pages, 5 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06690.x

We investigate the host galaxy luminosities of BL Lac Objects (BLLs) and Radio Loud Quasars (RLQs) at z<0.5 imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). From a homogeneous treatment of the data we construct the host galaxy luminosity functions (HGLFs) and find that RLQ hosts are ~0.5 mag brighter than those of BLL: _BLL= -23.5. For both classes the HGLFs exhibit a remarkably different distribution with respect to that of normal (inactive) ellipticals, with clear preference for more luminous galaxies to show nuclear activity. We make use of the black hole mass -- bulge luminosity (M[BH] -L[bulge]) relation, derived for nearby inactive ellipticals, to estimate the central black hole mass in our sample of radio loud active galaxies. In spite of a ~2 order of magnitude difference of intrinsic nuclear luminosity BLL and RLQ have BH of similar mass _BLL= 5.6x10^{8},

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