0 Assigned ID: 1064 ----- Attempting Submission 1 (Fri Apr 07 23:01:17 GMT 2017) ----- While the significance of supermassive black holes (BH) in galaxy evolution is now widely acknowledged, models of the processes regulating the BH-host galaxy relationship are poorly constrained. We will address this with a new analysis of archival broad-band and narrow-band HST imaging combined with direct kinematic measurements of the inflows and outflows in those same local Seyfert galaxies. The Keck OSIRIS Nearby AGN (KONA) survey of nearby bona fide Seyfert galaxies gives a statistically significant characterization of feeding and feedback in the central few hundred parsecs of Seyfert AGN. Dust structure and color maps trace the inflowing molecular gas measured with OSIRIS, while the narrow line region imaged in narrow-band HST data traces the outflowing ionized gas. Only with the larger field of view of HST imaging is it possible to reliably identify inflow mechanisms, constrain orientation of nuclear spiral and bar structures, and characterize the morphology of the NLR including extent, opening angle, and orientation. These are essential inputs to modeling of the inflow and outflow kinematics measured within the central few hundred parsecs of the KONA galaxies. With this informed interpretation of the inflow and outflow kinematics, and the modeling enabled through comparison with HST imaging, we can then address the key issues of (i) what is the primary inflow mechanism(s) and how are these processes related to fundamental AGN and host galaxy properties?, and (ii) under what conditions can the AGN drive an outflow that substantially modifies the ISM and thus the evolution of the host galaxy? Massive Black Holes And Their Host Galaxies Galaxies and the IGM 0 Regular false false false SUPPORTED