THE BLACK HOLE MASS IN M87 FROM GEMINI/NIFS ADAPTIVE OPTICS OBSERVATIONS

Gebhardt, Karl; J. Adams, Joshua; O. Richstone, D.; R. Lauer, Tod; M. Faber, S.; Gültekin, Kayhan; D. Murphy, Jeremy; Tremaine, Scott

doi:10.1088/0004-637x/729/2/119

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THE BLACK HOLE MASS IN M87 FROM GEMINI/NIFS ADAPTIVE OPTICS OBSERVATIONS

Published in The Astrophysical Journal • Feb 16, 2011

Authors:

Karl Gebhardt

Joshua J. Adams

D. O. Richstone

Abstract

We present the stellar kinematics in the central 2'' of the luminous elliptical galaxy M87 (NGC 4486), using laser adaptive optics to feed the Gemini telescope integral-field spectrograph, Near-infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS). The velocity dispersion rises to 480 km s −1 at 0 2. We combi...

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Physics

Astrophysics

Black hole (networking)

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