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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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(ii) <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g the additional component.<br />

We assessed the effectiveness of <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g this component <strong>in</strong> each galaxy based<br />

on (1) an improvement <strong>in</strong> the mean of the absolute value of the residuals from the<br />

fit ≥ 5% (2) an improvement <strong>in</strong> the reduced χ 2 value of the fit such that (R 2 1 −<br />

R 2 2 )/R2 1<br />

≥ 0.15 <strong>and</strong> (3) an improvement judged by eye <strong>in</strong> the fit compared to the<br />

data. We assigned a score to each galaxy, with one po<strong>in</strong>t available for each of the<br />

three categories. We consider scores of 2 or 3 to be <strong>in</strong>dicative of the presence of a<br />

broad component, a score of 1 <strong>in</strong>dicates the possibility of a broad component, while<br />

we treat a score of 0 as a none detection. The three parameters <strong>and</strong> scores are listed<br />

<strong>in</strong> Table 3.27.<br />

We f<strong>in</strong>d an additional free component improves the fit <strong>in</strong> 62% (N = 13) of the<br />

sample galaxies. In the cases of NGC 2329 <strong>and</strong> NGC 3862 the component appears to<br />

represent a non-flat cont<strong>in</strong>uum. The k<strong>in</strong>ematic parameters for each galaxy <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

the additional free component are listed <strong>in</strong> Table 3.28 <strong>and</strong> the flux parameters <strong>in</strong><br />

Table 3.29. We present further <strong>in</strong>terpretation of the nature <strong>and</strong> orig<strong>in</strong> of the features<br />

fit by the additional free component <strong>in</strong> §5.3.<br />

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