Intermediate-mass black holes

JE Greene, J Strader, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M BH≈ 10–105 M⊙.
We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion …

Coevolution (or not) of supermassive black holes and host galaxies

J Kormendy, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Supermassive black holes (BHs) have been found in 85 galaxies by dynamical modeling of
spatially resolved kinematics. The Hubble Space Telescope revolutionized BH research by …

Revisiting the scaling relations of black hole masses and host galaxy properties

NJ McConnell, CP Ma - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
New kinematic data and modeling efforts in the past few years have substantially expanded
and revised dynamical measurements of black hole masses (M•) at the centers of nearby …

Central masses and broad-line region sizes of active galactic nuclei. II. A homogeneous analysis of a large reverberation-map** database

BM Peterson, L Ferrarese, KM Gilbert… - The Astrophysical …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We present improved black hole masses for 35 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) based on a
complete and consistent reanalysis of broad emission-line reverberation-map** data …

The M–σ and M–L relations in galactic bulges, and determinations of their intrinsic scatter

K Gültekin, DO Richstone, K Gebhardt… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive improved versions of the relations between supermassive black hole mass (M
BH) and host-galaxy bulge velocity dispersion (σ) and luminosity (L; the M–σ and M–L …

On the black hole mass-bulge mass relation

N Häring, HW Rix - The Astrophysical Journal, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
We have reexamined the relation between the mass of the central black holes in nearby
galaxies, M bh, and the stellar mass of the surrounding spheroid or bulge, M bulge. For a …

Local supermassive black holes, relics of active galactic nuclei and the X-ray background

A Marconi, G Risaliti, R Gilli, LK Hunt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We quantify the importance of mass accretion during active galactic nuclei (AGN) phases in
the growth of supermassive black holes (BHs) by comparing the mass function of black …

The relation between black hole mass, bulge mass, and near-infrared luminosity

A Marconi, LK Hunt - The Astrophysical Journal, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new accurate near-infrared (NIR) spheroid (bulge) structural parameters
obtained by a two-dimensional image analysis of all galaxies with a direct black hole (BH) …

Nuclear star clusters

N Neumayer, A Seth, T Böker - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2020 - Springer
We review the current knowledge about nuclear star clusters (NSCs), the spectacularly
dense and massive assemblies of stars found at the centers of most galaxies. Recent …

The SAURON project—IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

M Cappellari, R Bacon, M Bureau… - Monthly Notices of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the well-known correlations between the dynamical mass-to-light ratio (M/L)
and other global observables of elliptical (E) and lenticular (S0) galaxies. We construct two …