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astro-ph200766 cited

The Black Hole Mass and Extreme Orbital Structure in NGC1399

Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer, Jason Pinkney +12

The largest galaxies, and in particular central galaxies in clusters, offer unique insight into understanding the mechanism for the growth of nuclear black holes. We present Hubble…

astro-ph2004

The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST. V. New WFPC2 Photometry

Tod R. Lauer, S. M. Faber, Karl Gebhardt +14

We analyze HST+WFPC2 images of 77 early-type galaxies. Brightness profiles are classed into "core" or "power-law" forms. Cores are typically rounder than power-law galaxies. Nearly…

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-ph2003

Kinematics of Ten Early-Type Galaxies from HST and Ground-Based Spectroscopy

Jason Pinkney, Karl Gebhardt, Ralf Bender +11

We present stellar kinematics for a sample of 10 early-type galaxies observed using the STIS aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Modular Spectrograph on the MDM Observatory…

astro-ph2002

Axisymmetric Dynamical Models of the Central Regions of Galaxies

Karl Gebhardt, Douglas Richstone, Scott Tremaine +12

We present axisymmetric, orbit superposition models for 12 galaxies using data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and ground-based observatories. In each galaxy, we detect…