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A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. IV. Correlations Between M (BH) and Host Galaxy sigma, Stellar Mass, and Luminosity
Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, Phys Dept, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA..ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2064-0518
Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA..
Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Phys, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA.;Univ Tokyo, WPI, Kavli Inst Phys & Math Universe IPMU, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778583, Japan..
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences (SCI), Physics. Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, Phys Dept, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 USA.;Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.;Univ Hamburg, Dept Phys, D-20355 Hamburg, Germany.;Deutsch Elekt Synchrotron DESY, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany..ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9685-7049
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2021 (English)In: Astrophysical Journal, ISSN 0004-637X, E-ISSN 1538-4357, Vol. 921, no 1, article id 36Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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The tight correlations between the mass of supermassive black holes (M (BH)) and their host-galaxy properties have been of great interest to the astrophysical community, but a clear understanding of their origin and fundamental drivers still eludes us. The local relations for active galaxies are interesting in their own right and form the foundation for any evolutionary study over cosmic time. We present Hubble Space Telescope optical imaging of a sample of 66 local active galactic nuclei (AGNs); for 14 objects, we also obtained Gemini near-infrared images. We use state-of-the-art methods to perform surface photometry of the AGN host galaxies, decomposing them into spheroid, disk, and bar (when present), and inferring the luminosity and stellar mass of the components. We combine this information with spatially resolved kinematics obtained at the Keck Telescopes to study the correlations between M (BH) (determined from single-epoch virial estimators) and host galaxy properties. The correlations are uniformly tight for our AGN sample, with intrinsic scatter 0.2-0.4 dex, smaller than or equal to that of quiescent galaxies. We find no difference between pseudo and classical bulges or barred and nonbarred galaxies. We show that all the tight correlations can be simultaneously satisfied by AGN hosts in the 10(7)-10(9) M (circle dot) regime, with data of sufficient quality. The M (BH)-sigma relation is also in agreement with that of AGN with M (BH) obtained from reverberation mapping, providing an indirect validation of single-epoch virial estimators of M (BH).

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IOP Publishing Ltd , 2021. Vol. 921, no 1, article id 36
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-304756DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac151aISI: 000712062000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85118888545OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-304756DiVA, id: diva2:1611042
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Available from: 2021-11-12 Created: 2021-11-12 Last updated: 2022-06-25Bibliographically approved

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