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  • Re: most massive galaxies

    From David Dalton@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 3 16:34:12 2024
    On Jan 3, 2024, Wolfgang Rave wrote
    (in article<[email protected]>):

    hello there,

    I am searching for a list of the most massive galaxies and their central black holes, both with mass measurements/estimations. Is there anything like this available on the net? In particular I'm searching for a correlation between the galaxy and the SMBH masses (roughly M(Gal)/M(SMBH) ~ n x 100 with some valuable dispersion from n x 10 to n x 1000). I stumbled over the Tully-Fisher, the Faber-Jackson and the M-sigma relations, but they do not give an easy (linear?) correlation of the masses in question.
    In addition, I checked wikipedia for the cD ("giant elliptical galaxies") and the SMBHs, but the mass data/estimations especially for the gal's are frequently missing. A list of the most massive SMBHs is readily available https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_black_holes but no mass data for the galaxies around it.

    Any help will be gratefully acknowledged.

    thanx in advance, Wolfgang.

    You could also try the moderated group sci.astro.research .

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  • From Martin Brown@21:1/5 to Wolfgang Rave on Wed Jan 24 13:48:23 2024
    On 03/01/2024 09:32, Wolfgang Rave wrote:
    hello there,

    I am searching for a list of the most massive galaxies and their central black holes, both with mass measurements/estimations. Is there anything like this available on the net? In particular I'm searching for a correlation between the galaxy and the
    SMBH masses (roughly M(Gal)/M(SMBH) ~ n x 100 with some valuable dispersion from n x 10 to n x 1000). I stumbled over the Tully-Fisher, the Faber-Jackson and the M-sigma relations, but they do not give an easy (linear?) correlation of the masses in
    question.
    In addition, I checked wikipedia for the cD ("giant elliptical galaxies") and the SMBHs, but the mass data/estimations especially for the gal's are frequently missing. A list of the most massive SMBHs is readily available https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
    List_of_most_massive_black_holes but no mass data for the galaxies around it.

    Any help will be gratefully acknowledged.

    Here is a paper on one way of estimating the masses in active and
    Seyfert galaxies from observation of spectral lines from MNRAS.
    Looks fairly plausible to me.

    https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/487/3/3404/5511907

    Not really my field though. There may be lists try searching in SIMBAD
    or ADS abstracts and cross your fingers for a bit of good luck.

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    Martin Brown

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