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The Illustris Simulation: Supermassive Black Hole - Galaxy Connection Beyond the Bulge
Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Marc S. Seigar, Ian B. Hewitt +3
We study the spiral arm morphology of a sample of the local spiral galaxies in the Illustris simulation and explore the supermassive black hole - galaxy connection beyond the bulge…
A Fundamental Plane of Spiral Structure in Disk Galaxies
Benjamin L. Davis, Daniel Kennefick, Julia Kennefick +7
Spiral structure is the most distinctive feature of disk galaxies and yet debate persists about which theory of spiral structure is the correct one. Many versions of the density wa…
Smoothing Rotation Curves and Mass Profiles
Joel C. Berrier, J. A. Sellwood
We show that spiral activity can erase pronounced features in disk galaxy rotation curves. We present simulations of growing disks, in which the added material has a physically mot…
Constraining dark matter halo profiles and galaxy formation models using spiral arm morphology. II. Dark and stellar mass concentrations for 13 nearby face-on galaxies
Marc S. Seigar, Benjamin L. Davis, Joel Berrier +1
We investigate the use of spiral arm pitch angles as a probe of disk galaxy mass profiles. We confirm our previous result that spiral arm pitch angles (P) are well correlated with…
The Black Hole Mass Function Derived from Local Spiral Galaxies
Benjamin L. Davis, Joel C. Berrier, Lucas Johns +6
We present our determination of the nuclear supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass function for spiral galaxies in the Local Universe, established from a volume-limited sample consist…
Further Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole Mass - Pitch Angle Relation
Joel C. Berrier, Benjamin L. Davis, Daniel Kennefick +7
We present new and stronger evidence for a previously reported relationship between galactic spiral arm pitch angle P (a measure of the tightness of spiral structure) and the mass…
Measurement of Galactic Logarithmic Spiral Arm Pitch Angle Using Two-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform Decomposition
Benjamin L. Davis, Joel C. Berrier, Douglas W. Shields +5
A logarithmic spiral is a prominent feature appearing in a majority of observed galaxies. This feature has long been associated with the traditional Hubble classification scheme, b…