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PP 020086

The (black hole mass)-(color) relations for early- and late-type galaxies: red and blue sequences

Bililign T. Dullo (1), Alexandre Y. K. Bouquin (1,2,3), Armando Gil De Paz (1), Johan H. Knapen (2,3), Javier Gorgas (1)
(1) UCM (2) IAC (3) ULL
[Abridged] Tight correlations between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass
($M_{\rm BH}$) and the properties of the host galaxy have useful implications
for our understanding of the growth of SMBHs and evolution of galaxies. Here,
we present newly observed correlations between $M_{\rm BH}$ and the host galaxy
total UV$-$ [3.6] color ($\mathcal{C_{\rm UV,tot}}$, Pearson's r = $0.6-0.7$)
for a sample of 67 galaxies (20 early-type galaxies and 47 late-type galaxies)
with directly measured $M_{\rm BH}$ in the GALEX/S$^{4}$G survey. The colors
are carefully measured in a homogeneous manner using the galaxies' FUV, NUV and
3.6 $\micron$ magnitudes and their multi-component structural decompositions in
the literature. We find that more massive SMBHs are hosted by (early- and
late-type) galaxies with redder colors, but the $M_{\rm BH}- \mathcal{C_{\rm
UV,tot}}$ relations for the two morphological types have slopes that differ at
$\sim 2 \sigma$ level. Early-type galaxies define a red sequence in the $M_{\rm
BH}- \mathcal{C_{\rm UV,tot}}$ diagrams, while late-type galaxies trace a blue
sequence. Within the assumption that the specific star formation rate of a
galaxy (sSFR) is well traced by $L_{\rm UV}/L_{\rm 3.6}$, it follows that the
SMBH masses for late-type galaxies exhibit a steeper dependence on sSFR than
those for early-type galaxies. The $M_{\rm BH}- \mathcal{C_{\rm UV,tot}}$ and
$M_{\rm BH}-L_{\rm 3.6,tot}$ relations for the sample galaxies reveal a
comparable level of vertical scatter in the log $M_{\rm BH}$ direction, roughly
$5\%-27\%$ more than the vertical scatter of the $M_{\rm BH}-\sigma$ relation.
Our $M_{\rm BH}- \mathcal{C_{\rm UV,tot}}$ relations suggest different channels
of SMBH growth for early- and late-type galaxies, consistent with their
distinct formation and evolution scenarios.

 
Aceptado para publicación en ApJ | Enviado el 2020-06-19 | Proyecto 3I2407