WISDOM Project -- XXVIII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass of the galaxy NGC 1387
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| author | Dominiak, Pandora Bureau, Martin Liang, Fu-Heng Cappellari, Michele Davis, Timothy A. Lelli, Federico Ruffa, Ilaria Williams, Thomas G. Zhang, Hengyue |
| author_facet | Dominiak, Pandora Bureau, Martin Liang, Fu-Heng Cappellari, Michele Davis, Timothy A. Lelli, Federico Ruffa, Ilaria Williams, Thomas G. Zhang, Hengyue |
| contents | Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured using molecular gas kinematics. Here we present high angular resolution ($0.12$ arcsec or $\approx11$ pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the $^{12}$CO(2-1) line emission of the early-type galaxy NGC 1387. The observations reveal a face-on, regularly-rotating central molecular gas disc with a diameter of $\approx18$ arcsec ($\approx1.7$ kpc) and a central depression slightly larger than the SMBH sphere of influence. We forward model the CO data cube in a Bayesian framework with the \textsc{Kinematic Molecular Simulation} code, and use \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} data to constrain the stellar gravitational potential contribution to the molecular gas kinematics. We infer a SMBH mass of $1.10^{+1.71}_{-0.95}[\text{stat},3σ]^{+2.45}_{-1.09}[\text{sys}]\times10^8$ M$_\odot$ and a F160W-filter stellar mass-to-light ratio of $0.90^{+0.44}_{-0.35}[\text{stat}, 3σ]^{+0.46}_{-0.36}[\text{sys}]$ M$_\odot$/L$_{\odot,\text{F160W}}$. This SMBH mass is consistent with the SMBH mass -- stellar velocity dispersion relation. |
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| spellingShingle | WISDOM Project -- XXVIII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass of the galaxy NGC 1387 Dominiak, Pandora Bureau, Martin Liang, Fu-Heng Cappellari, Michele Davis, Timothy A. Lelli, Federico Ruffa, Ilaria Williams, Thomas G. Zhang, Hengyue Astrophysics of Galaxies Supermassive black hole (SMBH) masses can be measured using molecular gas kinematics. Here we present high angular resolution ($0.12$ arcsec or $\approx11$ pc) Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array observations of the $^{12}$CO(2-1) line emission of the early-type galaxy NGC 1387. The observations reveal a face-on, regularly-rotating central molecular gas disc with a diameter of $\approx18$ arcsec ($\approx1.7$ kpc) and a central depression slightly larger than the SMBH sphere of influence. We forward model the CO data cube in a Bayesian framework with the \textsc{Kinematic Molecular Simulation} code, and use \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} data to constrain the stellar gravitational potential contribution to the molecular gas kinematics. We infer a SMBH mass of $1.10^{+1.71}_{-0.95}[\text{stat},3σ]^{+2.45}_{-1.09}[\text{sys}]\times10^8$ M$_\odot$ and a F160W-filter stellar mass-to-light ratio of $0.90^{+0.44}_{-0.35}[\text{stat}, 3σ]^{+0.46}_{-0.36}[\text{sys}]$ M$_\odot$/L$_{\odot,\text{F160W}}$. This SMBH mass is consistent with the SMBH mass -- stellar velocity dispersion relation. |
| title | WISDOM Project -- XXVIII. Molecular gas measurement of the supermassive black hole mass of the galaxy NGC 1387 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12945 |