A new SMBH mass function for the local Universe

Authors
Dr.
Marina Vika
Date and time
10 Feb 2010 - 23:00 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
0
Description
We present our latest measurement of the SMBH mass function at redshift zero based on detailed structural studies of 1743 galaxies extracted from the B-band Millennium Galaxy Catalogue. Using the empirical correlations between the mass of the black hole and the photometric properties of the spheroid, MBH-L and MBH-n we estimated the SMBH mass of each galaxy and from this construct empirically derived SMBH mass functions. In addition, using a sample of 30 nearby elliptical and spiral galaxies, we will present new results showing the near-IR correlation between bulge properties and SMBH mass.