The slope of the black hole mass versus velocity dispersion correlation

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 574, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 740-753

  Tremaine, Scott ^a   Gebhardt, Karl ^b   Bender, Ralf ^c   Bower, Gary ^d   Dressler, Alan ^e   Faber, S M ^f   Filippenko, Alexei V ^g   Green, Richard ^h   Grillmair, Carl ⁱ   Ho, Luis C ^e   Kormendy, John ^b   Lauer, Tod R ^h   Magorrian, John ^j   Pinkney, Jason ^k   Richstone, Douglas ^k  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d Space Telescope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^e CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^f University of California   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ SIRTF Science Center   (United States)

^j DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: bulges; Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001738853     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341002     Document Type: Review

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