Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

slits were aligned to a mean of the position angles of the central isophotes measured
from our WFPC/2 images, which vary considerably. We allowed considerable flexibil-
ity in position angle to enable reasonable observing windows. The central kinematic
and flux properties are listed in Table 3.8; the gas does not exhibit a regular rotation
profile. The fit to the central spectrum is not significantly improved by the addition
of a broad component, though the fit improves somewhat when judged by eye. Data
for this galaxy are shown in Figure 3.5 (see key in Figure 3.1 for an explanation of
these plots).
NGC 741 (UGC 1413) This E0 galaxy has no apparent nuclear dust. It has a
radio core on VLBA scales and a core-jet morphology on VLA scales. The STIS slits
were aligned approximately parallel to the galaxy major axis, however a certain degree
of freedom was allowed in slit placement to allow reasonable observing windows. The
central kinematic and flux properties are listed in Table 3.9. Very few points had
sufficient signal to noise to obtain good fits in these data, it has not been included
in further analysis of global kinematic properties. The fit to the central spectrum is
not improved by the addition of a broad component. Data for this galaxy are shown
in Figure 3.6 (see key in Figure 3.1 for an explanation of these plots).
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