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Gas Disks and Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Radio Galaxies

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k<strong>in</strong>ematics seem either irregular or organized <strong>in</strong> some manner that does not represent<br />

regular rotation. We do not <strong>in</strong>clude NGC 741 <strong>in</strong> discussions of k<strong>in</strong>ematics as very<br />

few po<strong>in</strong>ts were well fit dur<strong>in</strong>g our analysis. We classify 67% (N = 14/21) of the<br />

UGC FR-I galaxies as rotators. 73% of galaxies with dust disks (N = 8/11), 100%<br />

of galaxies with dust lanes (N = 5/5) <strong>and</strong> 50% of galaxies with complex dust or no<br />

dust (N = 2/4) are rotators.<br />

We have made use of the mean velocity dispersion<br />

σ100pc = 1<br />

N<br />

80<br />

�<br />

σi : xi ≤ 100pc, (3.4)<br />

<strong>and</strong> the difference <strong>in</strong> mean velocities on each side of the nucleus<br />

�<br />

��<br />

� ⎛<br />

� 1 �<br />

∆100pc = �<br />

� vi : −100pc ≤ xi < 0 − ⎝<br />

� N1 i<br />

1<br />

⎞�<br />

�<br />

�<br />

�<br />

vj : 0 < xj ≤ 100pc⎠�<br />

�<br />

N2 j<br />

�<br />

i<br />

(3.5)<br />

with<strong>in</strong> 100 pc of the brightest pixel as illustrative of the global k<strong>in</strong>ematic pa-<br />

rameters along the central slit 2 . These parameters are shown <strong>in</strong> Table 3.30 for each<br />

galaxy, along with the mean properties for each class of galaxy. In Figure 3.23 we<br />

2 For NGC 4261 we used the offset slit closest to the nucleus as expla<strong>in</strong>ed above.

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