Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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where the black hole dominates the potential, so the relationship implies a connection between the formation and evolution of galaxies and the black holes they harbor. Models describing this linked co-evolution, growing the systems that we observe today from ‘seed’ black holes and small bulges, are beginning to provide some theoretical frameworks to explain the observed correlations (Silk & Rees, 1998; Ostriker, 2000; Haehnelt & Kauffmann, 2000; Adams et al., 2001). This type of co-evolution scenario may also indicate that other connections between the central engine and large scale host galaxy may exist. 1.4 This dissertation In this dissertation we present investigations into a complete sample of nearby radio galaxies, based primarily on spectroscopic observations obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope. We set out to work towards answering the following questions: • What is the nature of the spectra observed from the emission line gas in the nuclei of nearby radio galaxies? • What can be said about the masses of the black holes in these radio galaxies based on the gas kinematics? • How is the gas organized in the central regions? 14
• What connections can be found between the central engines and that gas? Understanding these matters in nearby galaxies, where we are able to probe on scales that may be meaningful in terms of the physical processes that take place, may allow us in future to gain insights into how AGN relate to each other, and how we might make more meaningful interpretations of data we receive from more distant sources where we do not have the resolution to probe the nuclei in such detail. In Chapter 2, we will describe the selection of our sample of 21, nearby, radio-loud elliptical galaxies, and summarize some previous observational work on the sample. In Chapter 3, we describe the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectroscopic observations we obtained of the sample galaxies, and present the resulting data set. In Chapter 4 we discuss work we have carried out on modeling the gas in the gravitational potential of the galaxies, with and without black holes, and in Chapter 5 we go on to discuss the global kinematic state of the nuclear gas, some properties of the central engines and possible connections between the two. We present a summary of our conclusions and a description of future directions for this work in Chapter 6. 15
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Page 3 and 4: Abstract Gas Disks and Supermassive
Page 5 and 6: Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Radio
Page 7 and 8: 4.2.3 Stellar luminosity densities
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Page 17 and 18: Acknowledgments First I would like,
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line flux of the Hα line and colum
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3.3.3 Quantifying error sources The
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and velocity dispersions (dominated
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slits were aligned to a mean of the
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windows. The central kinematic and
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(slit one) than the central positio
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(see key in Figure 3.1 for an expla
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the gas exhibits a regular rotation
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show the relationship between the t
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3.5.2 Flux ratios and ionization In
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them to the samples of LINERS by Ho
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lines. 5. Flux-unconstrained Broad
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Table 3.1. HST-STIS G750M observing
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Table 3.3. Position angles of vario
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Table 3.5. NGC 193: Measured Parame
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Table 3.11. NGC 2329: Measured Para
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Table 3.27. Presence of a Nuclear B
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Table 3.29. Fits to the central pix
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Table 3.31. Comparison of broad lin
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(a) (b) (i) (ii) (c) (i) (ii) (iii)
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Intensity (erg s −1 cm −2 Å
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Difference in mean velocity on each
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Mean velocity dispersion (km s -1 )
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Chapter 4 Modeling gas in gravitati
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4.2 Thin disk models with and witho
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gas disks were computed by making a
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intensity contours are aligned conc
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4.2.4 Dynamical models As discussed
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are described in Appendix A of van
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models integrating using 150 by 150
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models. Pronounced differences can
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NGC 383: This S0 galaxy has a nucle
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at an offset of 80 km s −1 , equi
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gas velocities are very well settle
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NGC 5141: This S0 galaxy has a nucl
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e compatible with a ∼ 9 × 10 8 M
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hole masses for these galaxies. The
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numerical approaches they made the
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In the positive offset slit of NGC
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4.5 Conclusions In this chapter we
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low statistical significance) possi
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Table 4.2. STIS PSF Parameters. Gau
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Table 4.4. Mass to light ratio (Υ)
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Table 4.6. Black hole signatures in
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weighted 600 500 400 300 200 100 =
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weighted 600 500 400 300 200 100 =
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weighted 500 400 300 200 100 = 0. k
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weighted 500 400 300 200 100 = 37.
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weighted 500 400 300 200 100 = 50.
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weighted 600 500 400 300 200 100 =
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weighted 500 400 300 200 100 = -50.
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weighted 800 600 400 200 = 280. km
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Gas Radial Velocity (km s -1 ) 400
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Gas Radial Velocity (km s -1 ) Gas
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Gas Radial Velocity (km s -1 ) 300
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M BH (M Sun) 10 10 10 9 10 8 10 7 1
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We showed that the mean dispersions
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within 100 pc of the nucleus: � N
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as face on disks are approached; th
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the inclination of the dust disk. O
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where we observe smaller and larger
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on scales of 1/8 the Effective radi
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may have some connections with the
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is well correlated with σc (correl
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e primarily driven by the central e
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organized rotation. This supports t
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Table 5.1. Weighted mean kinematic
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Table 5.3. Correlations between kin
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σ100 (km s -1 −−− ) 500 400
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−−− 2 2 σ100 / ∆100 100.00
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ε 100 (km s -1 ) 250 200 150 100 5
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∆ 100 (km s -1 ) 500 400 300 200
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42 41 40 39 38 M87 nuclear SED 37 8
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ased on the gas kinematics? • How
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emaining galaxies may be of particu
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in nearby galaxies, and is being us
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of the features observed in the vel
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From the work presented in this dis
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Comparing samples of active and qui
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Bower, G. A., Green, R. F., Danks,
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Herrnstein, J. R., Moran, J. M., Gr
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Quataert, E., & Narayan, R. 2001, A
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