The masses of nuclear black holes in luminous elliptical galaxies and implications for the space density of the most massive black holes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 662, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 808-834

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

^a NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: nuclei; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547230190     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518223     Document Type: Article

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