WISDOM project -- V. Resolving molecular gas in Keplerian rotation around the supermassive black hole in NGC 0383

Abstract

As part of the mm-Wave Interferometric Survey of Dark Object Masses (WISDOM), we present a measurement of the mass of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in the nearby early-type galaxy NGC 0383 (radio source 3C 031). This measurement is based on Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-milimeter Array (ALMA) cycle 4 and 5 observations of the 12CO(2-1) emission line with a spatial resolution of 58x32pc2 (0."18x0."1). This resolution, combined with a channel width of 10 km/s, allows us to well resolve the radius of the black hole sphere of influence (measured as R_SOI = 316pc = 0."98), where we detect a clear Keplerian increase of the rotation velocities. NGC 0383 has a kinematically-relaxed, smooth nuclear molecular gas disc with weak ring/spiral features. We forward-model the ALMA data cube with the Kinematic Molecular Simulation (KinMS) tool and a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo method to measure a SMBH mass of (4.2+/-0.7)x10^9 Msun, a F160W-band stellar mass-to-light ratio that varies from 2.8+/-0.6 Msun/Lsun in the centre to 2.4+/-0.3 Msun/Lsun at the outer edge of the disc and a molecular gas velocity dispersion of 8.3+/-2.1 km/s (all 3-sigma uncertainties). We also detect unresolved continuum emission across the full bandwidth, consistent with synchrotron emission from an active galactic nucleus. This work demonstrates that low-J CO emission can resolve gas very close to the SMBH (~140,000 Schwarzschild radii) and hence that the molecular gas method is highly complimentary to megamaser observations as it can probe the same emitting material.

13 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS 4th September 2019

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