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2016ApJ...822L..28B - Astrophys. J., 822, L28-L28 (2016/May-2)

Measurement of the black hole mass in NGC 1332 from ALMA observations at 0.044 arcsecond resolution.

BARTH A.J., BOIZELLE B.D., DARLING J., BAKER A.J., BUOTE D.A., HO L.C. and WALSH J.L.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 3 observations of CO(2-1) emission from the circumnuclear disk in the E/S0 galaxy NGC 1332 at 0.''044 resolution. The disk exhibits regular rotational kinematics and central high-velocity emission (±500 km/s) consistent with the presence of a compact central mass. We construct models for a thin, dynamically cold disk in the gravitational potential of the host galaxy and black hole and fit the beam-smeared model line profiles directly to the ALMA data cube. Model fits successfully reproduce the disk kinematics out to r=200 pc. Fitting models just to spatial pixels within projected r=50 pc of the nucleus (two times larger than the black hole's gravitational radius of influence), we find {M}BH=({6.64}{-0.63}^{+0.65})×{10}^{8} {M}_☉ . This observation demonstrates ALMA's powerful capability to determine the masses of supermassive black holes by resolving gas kinematics on small angular scales in galaxy nuclei.

Abstract Copyright: © 2016. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: bulges - galaxies: individual: NGC 1332 - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: nuclei

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