A stellar dynamical measurement of the black hole mass in the maser galaxy NGC 4258

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 693, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 946-969

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e OHIO NORTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^g INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ Space Telescope Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^j CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l Mount Graham International Observatory   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

galaxies: individual (NGC 4258); galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: nuclei; galaxies: spiral

Indexed keywords

EID: 66649107975     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/693/1/946     Document Type: Article

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