17 papers
Measuring Black Hole Masses Using Ionized Gas Kinematics
Aaron J. Barth, Marc Sarzi, Luis C. Ho +5
We describe techniques for measuring the central masses of galaxies using emission-line kinematics observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. For accurate results, it is necessary t…
The Central Regions of Early-Type Galaxies Hosting Active Galactic Nuclei as Viewed with HST/NICMOS
Swara Ravindranath, Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng +2
We present preliminary results from surface photometry of a sample of early-type galaxies observed with NICMOS on board HST in the F160W (H-band) filter. Dust is found to occur mos…
Supermassive Black Holes from the SUNNS survey
Marc Sarzi, Hans-Walter Rix, Joseph C. Shields +5
We report three new accurate mass measurements for the supermassive black holes hosted by the early-type disk galaxies NGC2787, NGC4459 and NGC4596. The targets were selected from…
Variability in LINERs
J. C. Shields, H. -W. Rix, D. H. McIntosh +6
A small number of LINERs have been seen to display variable H-alpha emission with a very broad, double-peaked profile. Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope indicate…
Oxygen Abundance Determination in Very Metal-Deficient Giants: Permitted O I Lines Versus Forbidden [O I] Lines
Y. Takeda, M. Takada-Hidai, S. Sato +4
The abundance of oxygen was determined for selected very metal-poor G-K stars (six giants and one turn-off star) based on the high S/N and high-resolution spectra observed with Kec…
Constraining reionization using the thermal history of the baryons
Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns, Michael Rauch +2
The thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) depends on the reionization history of the universe. Numerical simulations indicate that the low density IGM, which is respo…