Abstract
- [*] Black holes and central surface brightness cusps
- van der Marel R.P.
- in `Galaxy Dynamics', D. Merritt, J. Sellwood, M. Valluri, eds.,
ASP Conference Series, Vol. 182, p. 65-68, 1999
- © 1999. Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
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HST observations show that the surface brightness profiles of
early-type galaxies have central cusps. I summarize here the results
of van der Marel (1999), which show that
the observed characteristics of these cusps are consistent with the
hypothesis that all early-type galaxies have central black holes (BHs)
that grew adiabatically in homogeneous isothermal cores. The models
suggest a roughly linear correlation between BH mass and V-band galaxy
luminosity, log M_BH = -1.83 + log L in solar units, similar to the
relation suggested by kinematical BH detections in nearby galaxies.
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