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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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We showed that the mean dispersions are consistent with be<strong>in</strong>g drawn from a s<strong>in</strong>gle<br />

population (a probability of P = .93 from a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) <strong>and</strong> the ∆100pc<br />

is consistent with rotation (i.e. the mean velocities are higher on one side of the nucleus<br />

than the other along the major axis) for all cases other than where the dust disks<br />

are very face on or the central dust morphologies are very complex. We suggested<br />

that this evidence shows that these systems, whether we do or do not see signs of<br />

rotation, represent the same type of k<strong>in</strong>ematic systems, with observational effects<br />

such as <strong>in</strong>cl<strong>in</strong>ation <strong>and</strong> dust properties limit<strong>in</strong>g our ability to detect the rotation <strong>in</strong><br />

those systems where we do not. We concluded that a model of a rotat<strong>in</strong>g gas disk<br />

with significant r<strong>and</strong>om motions is compatible with all of the observations.<br />

In this chapter we will progress from our earlier work to produce parameters that<br />

improve the reliability of our description of the k<strong>in</strong>ematic state of the gas <strong>in</strong> each<br />

nucleus. We discuss the k<strong>in</strong>ematics of systems that we are view<strong>in</strong>g from different<br />

<strong>in</strong>cl<strong>in</strong>ations to identify global trends. We then go on to <strong>in</strong>vestigate correlations be-<br />

tween these parameters <strong>and</strong> what they can tell us about the k<strong>in</strong>ematic state of the<br />

gas, before go<strong>in</strong>g on to compare the gas <strong>and</strong> stellar k<strong>in</strong>ematics.<br />

In §5.3 we discuss some properties most closely related to the central eng<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong><br />

each nucleus: we discuss the broad l<strong>in</strong>es that we identified <strong>in</strong> Chapter 3 <strong>in</strong> more depth,<br />

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