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Axisymmetric Dynamical Models of the Central Regions of Galaxies

  • Authors: Karl Gebhardt, Douglas Richstone, Scott Tremaine, Tod R. Lauer, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Alexei V. Filippenko, Richard Green, Carl Grillmair, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, John Magorrian, and Jason Pinkney

Gebhardt et al. 2003 The Astrophysical Journal 583 92.

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Caption: Fig. 3.

Two‐dimensional plots of χ2 as a function of BH mass and mass‐to‐light ratio for each of the galaxies. The points represent models that we ran. The contours were determined by a two‐dimensional smoothing spline interpolated from these models and represent Δχ2 of 1.0, 2.71, 4.0, and 6.63 (corresponding to 68%, 90%, 95%, and 99% for 1 degree of freedom). The red vertical lines are the 68% limits for the BH masses marginalized over mass‐to‐light ratio, and the blue horizontal lines are the 68% limits for the mass‐to‐light ratios marginalized over BH mass.

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