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Mass of the southern black hole in NGC6240 from laser guide star adaptive optics

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2011

Authors

Medling, Anne
Ammons, S Mark
Max, Claire
Davies, Richard I
Engel, Hauke
Canalizo, G

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

NGC6240 is a pair of colliding disk galaxies, each with a black hole in its core. We have used laser guide star adaptive optics on the Keck II telescope to obtain high-resolution (∼006) near-infrared integral-field spectra of the region surrounding the

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Keywords: galaxies: individual (NGC 6240); galaxies: interactions; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: nuclei

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/71362

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ANU Research Publications

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/32

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2037-12-31

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