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astro-ph2007★ 1 cited
Quasars with a Kick -- Black Hole Recoil in Quasars
G. A. Shields, E. W. Bonning, S. Salviander
Mergers of spinning black holes can give recoil velocities from gravitational radiation up to several thousand km/s. A recoiling supermassive black hole in an AGN can retain the in…
astro-ph2005
QSO Host Galaxy Luminosity and [OIII] Line Width as a Surrogate for Stellar Velocity Distribution
E. W. Bonning, G. A. Shields, S. Salviander +1
Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei show a close relationship between the black hole mass, luminosity, and stellar velocity dispersion (sigma_*) of the host galaxy bulge. P…