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 Participant

Bender, Ralf

Institution

MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, University Observatory Munich  - Giessenbachstrasse - Garching b München - - Germany

Session

TC1

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Title

Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies
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Abstract

Adaptive optics-assisted integraI-field spectroscopy at the VLT has allowed to search for supermassive black holes in hitherto inaccessible nearby  galaxies. In this way, we could detect  supermassive black holes in dust-enshrouded centers of late-type  spiral galaxies and in recent galaxy mergers. Based on the new  data and improved catalogs of previous measurements, I will review  the correlations between Supermassive  Black Holes and their  host galaxies and discuss potential physical origins of intrinsic  scatter. I will also show that supermassive black holes do not correlate with disks or pseudo-bulges, neither do they depend on dark halo  properties, in particular the halo circular velocity. Dissipation and  baryonic physics during bulge formation seem to be the determining  factors in black hole growth.

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