Evidence for a 3 x 10^8 solar mass black hole in NGC 7052 from HST observations of the nuclear gas disk

Abstract

We present an HST study of the nuclear region of the E4 radio galaxy NGC 7052, which has a nuclear disk of dust and gas. The WFPC2 was used to obtain B, V and I broad-band images and an H_alpha+[NII] narrow-band image. The FOS was used to obtain H_alpha+[NII] spectra along the major axis, using a 0.26 arcsec diameter circular aperture. The observed rotation velocity of the ionized gas is V = 155 +/- 17 km/s at r = 0.2 arcsec from the nucleus. The Gaussian dispersion of the emission lines increases from sigma = 70 km/s at r=1 arcsec, to sigma = 400 km/s on the nucleus. To interpret the gas kinematics we construct axisymmetric models in which the gas and dust reside in a disk in the equatorial plane of the stellar body. It is assumed that the gas moves on circular orbits, with an intrinsic velocity dispersion due to turbulence. The circular velocity is calculated from the combined gravitational potential of the stars and a possible nuclear black hole (BH). Models without a BH predict a rotation curve that is shallower than observed (V_pred = 92 km/s at r = 0.2 arcsec), and are ruled out at > 99% confidence. Models with a BH of 3.3^{+2.3}_{-1.3} x 10^8 solar masses provide an acceptable fit. NGC 7052 can be added to the list of active galaxies for which HST spectra of a nuclear gas disk provide evidence for the presence of a central BH. The BH masses inferred for M87, M84, NGC 6251, NGC 4261 and NGC 7052 span a range of a factor 10, with NGC 7052 falling on the low end. By contrast, the luminosities of these galaxies are identical to within 25%. Any relation between BH mass and luminosity, as suggested by independent arguments, must therefore have a scatter of at least a factor 10.

39 pages, LaTeX, with 16 PostScript figures. Submitted to the Astronomical Journal. Postscript version with higher resolution figures available from http://sol.stsci.edu/~marel/abstracts/abs_R22.html

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