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2021MNRAS.504.4123N - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 504, 4123-4142 (2021/July-1)

Black hole mass measurement using ALMA observations of [CI] and CO emissions in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469.

NGUYEN D.D., IZUMI T., THATER S., IMANISHI M., KAWAMURO T., BABA S., NAKANO S., TURNER J.L., KOHNO K., MATSUSHITA S., MARTIN S., MEIER D.S., NGUYEN P.M. and NGUYEN L.T.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass measurement in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of the atomic-[CI](1-0) and molecular-12CO(1-0) emission lines at the spatial resolution of ≃0.′′3 (or ≃100 pc). These emissions reveal that NGC 7469 hosts a circumnuclear gas disc (CND) with a ring-like structure and a two-arm/bi-symmetric spiral pattern within it, surrounded by a starbursting ring. The CND has a relatively low σgas/V ≃ 0.35 (r <= 0.′′5) and ≃0.19 (r > 0.′′5), suggesting that the gas is dynamically settled and suitable for dynamically deriving the mass of its central source. As is expected from X-ray dominated region (XDR) effects that dramatically increase an atomic carbon abundance by dissociating CO molecules, we suggest that the atomic [CI](1-0) emission is a better probe of SMBH masses than CO emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Our dynamical model using the [CI](1-0) kinematics yields a M_ BH=1.78+2.69^–1.10×10^7 M and M/L_ F547M=2.25+0.40^–0.43 (M/L). The model using the 12CO(1-0) kinematics also gives a consistent MBH with a larger uncertainty, up to an order of magnitude, i.e. M_ BH=1.60+11.52^–1.45×10^7 M. This newly dynamical MBH is ≃2 times higher than the mass determined from the reverberation mapped (RM) method using emissions arising in the unresolved broad-line region (BLR). Given this new MBH, we are able to constrain the specific RM dimensionless scaling factor of f=7.2+4.2–3.4 for the AGN BLR in NGC 7469. The gas within the unresolved BLR thus has a Keplerian virial velocity component and the inclination of i~11.0-2.5_+2.2, confirming its face-on orientation in a Seyfert 1 AGN by assuming a geometrically thin BLR model.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: nuclei - galaxies: ISM - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: Seyfert - galaxies: spiral - (galaxies:) quasars: supermassive black holes

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