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Beyond the Bulge: A Fundamental Relation between Supermassive Black Holes and Dark Matter Halos by Ferrarese, Laura

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Selection bias in dynamically measured supermassive black hole samples: its consequences and the quest for the most fundamental relation by Shankar, Francesco, Bernardi, Mariangela, Sheth, Ravi K., Ferrarese, Laura, Graham, Alister W., Savorgnan, Giulia, Allevato, Viola, Marconi, Alessandro, Läsker, Ronald, Lapi, Andrea

“…We compare the set of local galaxies having dynamically measured black holes with a large, unbiased sample of galaxies extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky…”
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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XVIII. Measurement and Calibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for Bright Galaxies in Virgo (and Beyond) by Cantiello, Michele, Blakeslee, John P., Ferrarese, Laura, Côté, Patrick, Roediger, Joel C., Raimondo, Gabriella, Peng, Eric W., Gwyn, Stephen, Durrell, Patrick R., Cuillandre, Jean-Charles

“…We describe a program to measure surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances to galaxies observed in the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS), a…”
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The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. V. Measurement and Recalibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuations and a Precise Value of the Fornax-Virgo Relative Distance by Blakeslee, John P, Jordán, Andrés, Mei, Simona, Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Infante, Leopoldo, Peng, Eric W, Tonry, John L, West, Michael J

“…We present (g 475 - z 850) color and z 850-band surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) measurements for 43 early-type galaxies in the Fornax cluster imaged…”
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The ACS Fornax Cluster Survey. III. Globular Cluster Specific Frequencies of Early-type Galaxies by Liu, Yiqing, Peng, Eric W., Jordán, Andrés, Blakeslee, John P., Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Puzia, Thomas H.

“…The globular cluster (GC) specific frequency (SN), defined as the number of GCs per unit galactic luminosity, represents the efficiency of GC formation (and…”
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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXV. First Kinematical Clues of Overly Massive Dark Matter Halos in Several Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster by Toloba, Elisa, Sales, Laura V., Lim, Sungsoon, Peng, Eric W., Guhathakurta, Puragra, Roediger, Joel, Wang, Kaixiang, Mihos, J. Christopher, Côté, Patrick, Durrell, Patrick R., Ferrarese, Laura

“…Abstract We present Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopy of the first complete sample of ultradiffuse galaxies (UDGs) in the Virgo cluster. We select all UDGs in Virgo…”
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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. XXXVII. Distant RR Lyrae Stars and the Milky Way Stellar Halo Out to 300 kpc by Feng, Yuting, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Peng, Eric W., Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Ferrarese, Laura, Côté, Patrick, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, Munsell, Jane, Talukdar, Manjima

“…Abstract RR Lyrae stars are standard candles with characteristic photometric variability and serve as powerful tracers of Galactic structure, substructure,…”
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Virgo Redux: The Masses and Stellar Content of Nuclei in Early-type Galaxies from Multiband Photometry and Spectroscopy by Spengler, Chelsea, Côté, Patrick, Roediger, Joel, Ferrarese, Laura, Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén, Toloba, Elisa, Liu, Yiqing, Guhathakurta, Puragra, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, Gwyn, Stephen, Zirm, Andrew, Muñoz, Roberto, Puzia, Thomas, Lançon, Ariane, Peng, Eric W., Mei, Simona, Powalka, Mathieu

“…We present an analysis of 39 nuclei and their early-type hosts in the Virgo Cluster using 10 broadband filters: F300W, F475W, F850LP, F160W, u * griz , and Ks…”
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THE BLACK HOLE MASS OF NGC 4151. II. STELLAR DYNAMICAL MEASUREMENT FROM NEAR-INFRARED INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY by Onken, Christopher A, Valluri, Monica, Brown, Jonathan S, McGregor, Peter J, Peterson, Bradley M, Bentz, Misty C, Ferrarese, Laura, Pogge, Richard W, Vestergaard, Marianne, Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa, Riffel, Rogemar A

“…We present a revised measurement of the mass of the central black hole (M sub(BH)) in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4151. When our models attempt to fit both the…”
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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. SBF Distance Catalog and the Three-dimensional Structure of the Virgo Cluster by Mei, Simona, Blakeslee, John P, Côté, Patrick, Tonry, John L, West, Michael J, Ferrarese, Laura, Jordán, Andrés, Peng, Eric W, Anthony, André, Merritt, David

“…The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey consists of HST ACS imaging for 100 early-type galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, observed in the F475W (-SDSS g) and F850LP (-SDSS z)…”
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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). III. A Catalog of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances and the Three-dimensional Distribution of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster by Cantiello, Michele, Blakeslee, John P., Ferrarese, Laura, Côté, Patrick, Raimondo, Gabriella, Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, Durrell, Patrick R., Gwyn, Stephen, Hazra, Nandini, Peng, Eric W., Roediger, Joel C., Sánchez-Janssen, Rúben, Kurzner, Max

“…Abstract The surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) method is a robust and efficient way of measuring distances to galaxies containing evolved stellar…”
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The Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VCC 848 Formed by Dwarf-Dwarf Merging: H i Gas, Star Formation, and Numerical Simulations by Zhang, Hong-Xin, Smith, Rory, Oh, Se-Heon, Paudel, Sanjaya, Duc, Pierre-Alain, Boselli, Alessandro, Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Gao, Yu, Hunter, Deidre A., Puzia, Thomas H., Peng, Eric W., Rong, Yu, Shin, Jihye, Zhao, Yinghe

“…A clear link between a dwarf-dwarf merger event and enhanced star formation (SF) in the recent past was recently identified in the gas-dominated merger remnant…”
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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXVII. The Size and Structure of Globular Cluster Systems and Their Connection to Dark Matter Halos by Lim, Sungsoon, Peng, Eric W., Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Roediger, Joel C., Liu, Chengze, Spengler, Chelsea, Sola, Elisabeth, Duc, Pierre-Alain, Sales, Laura V., Blakeslee, John P., Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, Durrell, Patrick R., Emsellem, Eric, Gwyn, Stephen D. J., Lançon, Ariane, Marleau, Francine R., Mihos, J. Christopher, Müller, Oliver, Puzia, Thomas H., Sánchez-Janssen, Rubén

“…Abstract We study the size and structure of globular cluster (GC) systems of 118 early-type galaxies from the NGVS, MATLAS, and ACSVCS surveys. Fitting Sérsic…”
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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XII. The Luminosity Function of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies by Jordán, Andrés, Mclaughlin, Dean E., Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Peng, Eric W., Mei, Simona, Villegas, Daniela, Merritt, David, Tonry, John L., West, Michael J.

“…We analyze the luminosity function of the globular clusters (GCs) belonging to the early-type galaxies observed in the ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. We have…”
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THE NEXT GENERATION VIRGO CLUSTER SURVEY. XII. STELLAR POPULATIONS AND KINEMATICS OF COMPACT, LOW-MASS EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM GEMINI GMOS-IFU SPECTROSCOPY by Guérou, Adrien, Emsellem, Eric, McDermid, Richard M., Côté, Patrick, Ferrarese, Laura, Blakeslee, John P., Durrell, Patrick R., MacArthur, Lauren A., Peng, Eric W., Cuillandre, Jean-Charles, Gwyn, Stephen

“…ABSTRACT We present Gemini Multi Object Spectrograph integral-field unit (GMOS-IFU) data of eight compact, low-mass early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the Virgo…”
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Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Calibration of the Black Hole Mass-Velocity Dispersion Relationship for Active Galactic Nuclei by Onken, Christopher A, Ferrarese, Laura, Merritt, David, Peterson, Bradley M, Pogge, Richard W, Vestergaard, Marianne, Wandel, Amri

“…We calibrate reverberation-based black hole (BH) masses in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by using the correlation between BH mass, M sub(BH), and…”
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FORECASTOR. I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure Times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research Mission by Cheng, Isaac, Woods, Tyrone E., Côté, Patrick, Glover, Jennifer, Bansal, Dhananjhay, Amenouche, Melissa, Marshall, Madeline A., Amen, Laurie, Hutchings, John, Ferrarese, Laura, Venn, Kim A., Balogh, Michael, Blouin, Simon, Cloutier, Ryan, Dickson, Nolan, Gallagher, Sarah, Hellmich, Martin, Hénault-Brunet, Vincent, Khatu, Viraja, Lawlor-Forsyth, Cameron, Morgan, Cameron, Richer, Harvey, Sawicki, Marcin, Sorba, Robert

“…Abstract The Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and ultraviolet Research (CASTOR) is a proposed Canadian-led 1 m class space telescope that…”
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The complex nature of the nuclear star cluster in FCC 277 by Lyubenova, Mariya, van den Bosch, Remco C. E, Côté, Patrick, Kuntschner, Harald, van de Ven, Glenn, Ferrarese, Laura, Jordán, Andrés, Infante, Leopoldo, Peng, Eric W.

“…Recent observations have shown that compact nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are present in up to 80 per cent of galaxies. However, detailed studies of their…”
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The Low End of the Supermassive Black Hole Mass Function: Constraining the Mass of a Nuclear Black Hole in NGC 205 via Stellar Kinematics by Valluri, Monica, Ferrarese, Laura, Merritt, David, Joseph, Charles L

“…Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images and spectra of the nucleated dwarf elliptical galaxy NGC 205 are combined with three-integral axisymmetric dynamical models…”
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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. X. Half-Light Radii of Globular Clusters in Early-Type Galaxies: Environmental Dependencies and a Standard Ruler for Distance Estimation by Jordán, Andrés, Côté, Patrick, Blakeslee, John P, Ferrarese, Laura, McLaughlin, Dean E, Mei, Simona, Peng, Eric W, Tonry, John L, Merritt, David, Milosavljević, Miloš, Sarazin, Craig L, Sivakoff, Gregory R, West, Michael J

“…We have measured half-light radii, r sub(h), for thousands of globular clusters (GCs) belonging to the 100 early-type galaxies observed in the ACS Virgo…”
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