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A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE MASS AND THE TOTAL GRAVITATIONAL MASS OF THE HOST GALAXY

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Kaushala Bandara1,2, David Crampton1,2 and Luc Simard1,2

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We investigate the correlation between the mass of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) and the total gravitational mass of the host galaxy (M tot). The results are based on 43 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses from the Sloan Lens ACS Surveys (SLACS) Survey whose black hole masses were estimated through two scaling relations: the relation between black hole mass and Sérsic index (M bh-n) and the relation between black hole mass and stellar velocity dispersion (M bhsstarf). We use the enclosed mass within R 200, the radius within which the density profile of the early type galaxy exceeds the critical density of the universe by a factor of 200, determined by gravitational lens models fitted to Hubble Space Telescope imaging data, as a tracer of the total gravitational mass. The best-fit correlation, where M bh is determined from M bhsstarf relation, is log(M bh) = (8.18 ± 0.11) + (1.55 ± 0.31)(log(M tot)-13.0) over 2 orders of magnitude in M bh. From a variety of tests, we find that we cannot reliably infer a connection between M bh and M tot from the M bh-n relation. The M bh-M tot relation provides some of the first, direct observational evidence to test the prediction that SMBH properties are determined by the halo properties of the host galaxy.


Keywords

black hole physics; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: halos; gravitational lensing; quasars: general


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Issue 2 (2009 October 20)

Received 2009 March 13, accepted for publication 2009 September 3

Published 2009 September 30



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