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most citedSecular Evolution in Disk Galaxies: The Growth of Pseudobulges and Problems for Cold Dark Matter Galaxy Formation

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astro-ph200512 cited

Secular Evolution in Disk Galaxies: The Growth of Pseudobulges and Problems for Cold Dark Matter Galaxy Formation

John Kormendy, David B. Fisher

We review internal secular evolution in galaxy disks -- the fundamental process by which isolated disks evolve. We concentrate on the buildup of dense central features that look li…

astro-ph20043 cited

Scaling Laws for Dark Matter Halos in Late-Type and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

John Kormendy, K. C. Freeman

Maximum disk mass models fitted to galaxy rotation curves are used to show that dark matter (DM) halos in late-type and dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies satisfy well defined scalin…

astro-ph20044 cited

Black Hole Mass Determinations From Orbit Superposition Models are Reliable

Douglas Richstone, Karl Gebhardt, Monique Aller +13

We show that orbit-superposition dynamical models (Schwarzschild's method) provide reliable estimates of nuclear black hole masses and errors when constructed from adequate orbit l…

astro-ph20031 cited

The Stellar-Dynamical Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

John Kormendy

The robustness of stellar-dynamical black hole (BH) mass measurements is illustrated using 7 galaxies that have results from independent groups. Derived masses have remained consta…

astro-ph2001

The Nuclear Disk in the Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4486A

John Kormendy, Karl Gebhardt, F. Duccio Macchetto +1

Many ellipticals contain nuclear disks of dust and gas. Some ellipticals contain nuclear disks of stars that are distinct from the rest of the galaxy. We show that the dwarf E2 gal…

astro-ph2000

Supermassive Black Holes in Disk Galaxies

John Kormendy

Dynamical searches find central dark objects - candidate supermassive black holes (BHs) - in at least 34 galaxies. The demographics of these objects lead to the following conclusio…