A catalogue of nuclear stellar velocity dispersions of nearby galaxies from H$\alpha$ STIS spectra to constrain supermassive black hole masses

Abstract

We present new measurements for the nuclear stellar velocity dispersion ${\sigma }_{\ast }$ within sub-arcsecond apertures for 28 nearby galaxies. Our data consist of Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) long-slit spectra obtained with the G750M grating centred on the H$\alpha$ spectral range. We fit the spectra using a library of single stellar population models and Gaussian emission lines, while constraining in most cases the stellar-population content from an initial fit to G430L STIS spectra. We illustrate how these ${\sigma }_{\ast }$ measurements can be useful for constraining the mass $M_{\bullet }$ of supermassive black holes (SBHs) by concentrating on the cases of the lenticular galaxies NGC4435 and NGC4459. These are characterized by similar ground-based half-light radii stellar velocity dispersion ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{e}}$ values but remarkably different $M_{\bullet }$ as obtained from modelling their central ionised-gas kinematics, where NGC4435 appears to host a significantly undermassive SBH compared to what is expected from the $M_{\bullet }-{\sigma }_{\mathrm{e}}$ relation. For both galaxies, we build Jeans axisymmetric dynamical models to match the ground-based stellar kinematics obtained with SAURON integral-field spectrograph, including a SBH with $M_{\bullet }$ value as predicted by the $M_{\bullet }-{\sigma }_{\mathrm{e}}$ relation and using high-resolution HST images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to construct the stellar-mass model. By mimicking the HST observing conditions we use such reference models to make a prediction for the nuclear ${\sigma }_{\ast }$ value. Whereas this was found to agree with our nuclear ${\sigma }_{\ast }$ measurement for NGC4459, for NGC4435 the observed ${\sigma }_{\ast }$ is remarkably smaller than the predicted one, which further suggests that this galaxy could host an undermassive SBH.

arXiv comment14 pages, 8 figures, MNRAS accepted

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