Measuring supermassive black holes with gas kinematics: the active S0 galaxy NGC 3998

2006/08/25 by G. De Francesco, Giovanna De Francesco, A. Capetti +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Active galactic nucleus #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Galactic nuclei #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Galaxy group #Galaxy merger #Hubble sequence #Interacting galaxy #Radio galaxy #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Supermassive black hole #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20065826

Accepted for publication in A&A

openalex publication_date 2006/08/25 · arxiv created 2006/09/21 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context.We present results from a kinematical study of the gas in the nucleus of the active S0 galaxy NGC 3998 obtained from archival HST/STIS long-slit spectra.

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