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2013ApJ...763..136B - Astrophys. J., 763, 136 (2013/February-1)

Characterization of a sample of intermediate-type active galactic nuclei. II. Host bulge properties and black hole mass estimates.

BENITEZ E., MENDEZ-ABREU J., FUENTES-CARRERA I., CRUZ-GONZALEZ I., MARTINEZ B., LOPEZ-MARTIN L., JIMENEZ-BAILON E., CHAVUSHYAN V. and LEON-TAVARES J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a study of the host bulge properties and their relations with the black hole mass for a sample of 10 intermediate-type active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our sample consists mainly of early-type spirals, four of them hosting a bar. For 70+10–17% of the galaxies, we have been able to determine the type of the bulge, and find that these objects probably harbor a pseudobulge or a combination of classical bulge/pseudobulge, suggesting that pseudobulges might be frequent in intermediate-type AGNs. In our sample, 50%±14% of the objects show double-peaked emission lines. Therefore, narrow double-peaked emission lines seem to be frequent in galaxies harboring a pseudobulge or a combination of classical bulge/pseudobulge. Depending on the bulge type, we estimated the black hole mass using the corresponding MBH-σ* relation and found them within a range of 5.69±0.21 < log M σ*BH< 8.09±0.24. Comparing these M σ*BH values with masses derived from the FWHM of Hβ and the continuum luminosity at 5100 Å from their SDSS-DR7 spectra (MBH), we find that 8 out of 10 (80+7 –17%) galaxies have black hole masses that are compatible within a factor of 3. This result would support that MBH and M σ*BHare the same for intermediate-type AGNs, as has been found for type 1 AGNs. However, when the type of the bulge is taken into account, only three out of the seven (43+18–15%) objects of the sample have their M σ*BH and M BH compatible within 3σ errors. We also find that estimations based on the MBH-σ* relation for pseudobulges are not compatible in 50% ±20% of the objects.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: bulges - galaxies: photometry - galaxies: Seyfert

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