5 papers
Bar-driven secular evolution largely complete in a disk galaxy 7.6 billion years ago
Takafumi Tsukui, Zeyu Gao, Emily Wisnioski +4
Disk galaxies like the Milky Way are thought to evolve through internal dynamical processes: the stellar disk forms a bar, the bar drives gas inflow that builds a nuclear stellar d…
A Multimessenger Search for the Supermassive Black Hole Binary in 3C 66B with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array
Jacob Cardinal Tremblay, Boris Goncharov, Rutger van Haasteren +15
A subparsec supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) at the center of the galaxy 3C 66B is a promising candidate for continuous gravitational-wave searches with pulsar timing arrays…
WISDOM project -- XVIII. Molecular gas distributions and kinematics of three megamaser galaxies
Fu-Heng Liang, Mark D. Smith, Martin Bureau +11
The co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes (SMBHs) underpins our understanding of galaxy evolution, but different methods to measure SMBH masses have only infrequent…
WISDOM Project -- XXVI. Cross-checking supermassive black hole mass estimates from ALMA CO gas kinematics and SINFONI stellar kinematics in the galaxy NGC 4751
Pandora Dominiak, Michele Cappellari, Martin Bureau +6
We present high angular resolution ( or pc) ALMA observations of the CO(3-2) line emission of the galaxy NGC 4751. The data provide evidence for the pres…
WISDOM Project -- XXII. A 5% precision CO-dynamical supermassive black hole mass measurement in the galaxy NGC 383
Hengyue Zhang, Martin Bureau, Ilaria Ruffa +8
We present a measurement of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass of the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 383, based on Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) observati…