A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU
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| author | Taylor, Matthew A. Tahmasebzadeh, Behzad Thompson, Solveig Vasiliev, Eugene Valluri, Monica Drinkwater, Michael J. Cote, Patrick Ferrarese, Laura Roediger, Joel Baumgardt, Holger Bentz, Misty C. Dage, Kristen Peng, Eric W. Lapeer, Drew Liu, Chengze Sumners, Zach Wang, Kaixiang Baldassare, Vivienne Blakeslee, John P. Ko, Youkyung Woods, Tyrone E. |
| author_facet | Taylor, Matthew A. Tahmasebzadeh, Behzad Thompson, Solveig Vasiliev, Eugene Valluri, Monica Drinkwater, Michael J. Cote, Patrick Ferrarese, Laura Roediger, Joel Baumgardt, Holger Bentz, Misty C. Dage, Kristen Peng, Eric W. Lapeer, Drew Liu, Chengze Sumners, Zach Wang, Kaixiang Baldassare, Vivienne Blakeslee, John P. Ko, Youkyung Woods, Tyrone E. |
| contents | The integral-field unit mode of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec+IFU) mounted on the James Webb Space Telescope has now enabled kinematic studies of smaller and less massive compact stellar systems in which to search for central massive black holes (BHs) than ever before. We present here the first such detection using NIRSpec+IFU in its highest resolution (R~2700) mode. We report a $3σ$ detection of a central black hole with mass ${\cal M}_{BH}=2.2\pm1.1\times10^6\,M_\odot$ in UCD736 orbiting within the Virgo galaxy cluster based on Schwarzschild's modeling of the 1D kinematic profile. The presence of such a massive BH strongly argues against a globular cluster origin of this UCD, and rather suggests a tidally stripped formation route from a former $\gtrsim10^9\,M_\odot$ dwarf galaxy host. Two other methods produce results consistent with Schwarzschild's modelling, but can only provide upper-limits on ${\cal M}_{BH}$. This represents the detection of a BH in the most compact ($r_h\approx15\,{\rm pc}$) stellar system to date, with a ${\cal M}_{BH}$ corresponding to ~9 percent of the system's stellar mass, roughly in line with previously reported UCD BH detections and comparable to the BH detected in the compact elliptical galaxy NGC4486B. |
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| spellingShingle | A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU Taylor, Matthew A. Tahmasebzadeh, Behzad Thompson, Solveig Vasiliev, Eugene Valluri, Monica Drinkwater, Michael J. Cote, Patrick Ferrarese, Laura Roediger, Joel Baumgardt, Holger Bentz, Misty C. Dage, Kristen Peng, Eric W. Lapeer, Drew Liu, Chengze Sumners, Zach Wang, Kaixiang Baldassare, Vivienne Blakeslee, John P. Ko, Youkyung Woods, Tyrone E. Astrophysics of Galaxies The integral-field unit mode of the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec+IFU) mounted on the James Webb Space Telescope has now enabled kinematic studies of smaller and less massive compact stellar systems in which to search for central massive black holes (BHs) than ever before. We present here the first such detection using NIRSpec+IFU in its highest resolution (R~2700) mode. We report a $3σ$ detection of a central black hole with mass ${\cal M}_{BH}=2.2\pm1.1\times10^6\,M_\odot$ in UCD736 orbiting within the Virgo galaxy cluster based on Schwarzschild's modeling of the 1D kinematic profile. The presence of such a massive BH strongly argues against a globular cluster origin of this UCD, and rather suggests a tidally stripped formation route from a former $\gtrsim10^9\,M_\odot$ dwarf galaxy host. Two other methods produce results consistent with Schwarzschild's modelling, but can only provide upper-limits on ${\cal M}_{BH}$. This represents the detection of a BH in the most compact ($r_h\approx15\,{\rm pc}$) stellar system to date, with a ${\cal M}_{BH}$ corresponding to ~9 percent of the system's stellar mass, roughly in line with previously reported UCD BH detections and comparable to the BH detected in the compact elliptical galaxy NGC4486B. |
| title | A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00113 |