Program: GN-2013B-Q-68
Title: | The Black Hole Safari Forges Ahead |
PI: | Nicholas McConnell |
Co-I(s): | James Graham, Chung-Pei Ma, Tod Lauer, Karl Gebhardt |
Abstract
We propose to measure the central black hole masses (MBH) of eight galaxies using a combination of adaptive optics and seeing-limited data from Keck 1 (OSIRIS) and Gemini North (NIFS, GMOS-N). This proposal continues an ambitious program, the Black Hole Safari, to measure MBH in a large and diverse sample of galaxies. The Black Hole Safari will better define the high-mass ends of scaling relations between black holes and their host galaxies, and assess whether scatter in the relations arises from stochastic black hole growth or from systematic differences between galaxies in different cosmic environments.
Publications using this program's data
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[ADS] The MASSIVE Survey XIII -- Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics in the Central 1 kpc of 20 Massive Elliptical Galaxies with the GMOS-North Integral-Field Spectrograph
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[ADS] The MASSIVE Survey XIV—Stellar Velocity Profiles and Kinematic Misalignments from 200 pc to 20 kpc in Massive Early-type Galaxies
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[ADS] Triaxial Orbit-based Dynamical Modeling of Galaxies with Supermassive Black Holes and an Application to Massive Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1453