The Mass of the Black Hole in NGC 5273 from Stellar Dynamical Modeling

Abstract

We present a new constraint on the mass of the black hole in the active S0 galaxy NGC 5273. Due to the proximity of the galaxy at $16.6\pm 2.1$ Mpc, we were able to resolve and extract the bulk motions of stars near the central black hole using AO-assisted observations with Gemini NIFS, as well as constrain the large-scale kinematics using re-reduced archival SAURON spectroscopy. High resolution HST imaging allowed us to generate a surface brightness decomposition, determine approximate mass-to-light ratios for the bulge and disk, and obtain an estimate for the disk inclination. We constructed an extensive library of dynamical models using the Schwarzschild orbit-superposition code FORSTAND, exploring a range of disk and bulge shapes, halo masses, etc. We determined a black hole mass of $M_{\bullet }=[0.5-2]\times 10^7$ $M_{\odot }$, where the low side of the range is in agreement with the reverberation mapping measurement of $M_{\bullet }=[4.7\pm 1.6]\times 10^6$ $M_{\odot }$. NGC 5273 is one of only a small number of nearby galaxies hosting broad-lined AGN, allowing crucial comparison of the black hole masses derived from different mass measurement techniques.

arXiv comment20 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables; submitted to ApJ

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