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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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Chapter 5<br />

Nuclear gas k<strong>in</strong>ematics <strong>and</strong> central<br />

eng<strong>in</strong>es<br />

5.1 Introduction<br />

Given the discoveries by Kormendy & Richstone (1995) of a connection between black<br />

hole mass <strong>and</strong> host galaxy lum<strong>in</strong>osity, <strong>and</strong> the tighter correlations between the black<br />

hole mass <strong>and</strong> host k<strong>in</strong>ematics (Gebhardt et al., 2000a; Ferrarese & Merritt, 2000) it<br />

is of <strong>in</strong>terest to <strong>in</strong>vestigate how the global properties of the emission l<strong>in</strong>e gas relate<br />

to the properties of the host galaxy <strong>and</strong> central eng<strong>in</strong>e <strong>in</strong> the hopes of uncover<strong>in</strong>g<br />

connections between these systems.<br />

In §3.5 we <strong>in</strong>troduced two parameters to estimate the k<strong>in</strong>ematic properties of<br />

the central 100 pc of each galaxy, along the central slit (Equations 3.4 <strong>and</strong> 3.5).<br />

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