Studying the [OIII]$\lambda$5007A emission-line width in a sample of $\sim$80 local active galaxies: A surrogate for ${\sigma }_{\star }$?

Vardha N. Bennert, Donald Loveland, Edward Donohue +10

For a sample of $\sim$80 local ($0.02\le z\le 0.1$) Seyfert-1 galaxies with high-quality long-slit Keck spectra and spatially-resolved stellar-velocity dispersion (${\sigma }_{\star }$)…