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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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<strong>Gas</strong> Radial Velocity (km s -1 )<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

0<br />

-100<br />

-200<br />

-300<br />

NGC4261 Central Slit: ∆v = 0 km s -1<br />

-0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6<br />

Position along slit (arcsec)<br />

Figure 4.32 The observed velocity profiles of NGC 4261 for the positive offset slit<br />

position – which lies closest to the nucleus (though it may not <strong>in</strong>clude the k<strong>in</strong>ematic<br />

center of the galaxy). The velocities are shown shaded accord<strong>in</strong>g to the relative signalto-noise<br />

of each spectrum, formal errors from the fit are also <strong>in</strong>dicated (see Chapter<br />

3). The three solid l<strong>in</strong>es show model velocity profiles for no black hole, a 1 × 10 8 M⊙<br />

black hole <strong>and</strong> a 9 × 10 8 M⊙ (the steeper l<strong>in</strong>es from models with the greatest black<br />

hole mass). See text for details of the models. The dashed vertical l<strong>in</strong>es give a rough<br />

approximation of the radius of <strong>in</strong>fluence of a black hole based on the mass estimate<br />

from the M• − σ relation <strong>and</strong> the size of the r<strong>and</strong>om motions observed.<br />

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