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  • Breaking the blend: a multitracer kinematic decomposition method for IFS data applied to disentangling the AGN outflow and circumnuclear ring in NGC 5728 with JWST
    Veenema, Oscar; Thatte, Niranjan; Rigopoulou, Dimitra; Davies, Richard I.; Pereira-Santaella, Miguel; García-Bernete, Ismael; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Audibert, Anelise; Bellocchi, Enrica; Bunker, Andrew J.; Combes, Françoise; Díaz Santos, Tanio; Donnan, Fergus R.; Esparza-Arredondo, Donaji; Esposito, Federico; García-Burillo, Santiago; García-Lorenzo, Begoña; Gonzalez Martin, Omaira; Hermosa Muñoz, Laura; Hicks, Erin K. S.;
    2026/11, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 552, stag1917

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    2026/10/29
    Emmanuel Ríos López, INAOE
    Host: Donaji Esparza-Arrendondo
    We present a study of the scaling relations (SRs) between the masses of Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) and the structural parameters of the host galaxies in the local Universe. This work is based mainly on two-dimensional (2D) photometric decompositions of near-infrared (NIR) images of 2MASS, as well as on an ongoing mid-infrared data analysis for a sample of galaxies with direct MBH estimates comprising late- to early-type galaxies. We first verify the accuracy of our photometric decomposition by examining the Fundamental Plane (FP) and its projections, such as Kormendy and Faber-Jackson, Luminosity-Size, among other SRs, and the for SMBH relations with host galaxy parameters. We place our results also in the context of bulge types, namely, classical and pseudo bulges. In general, we found that classical bulges follow the same relations as elliptical galaxies, while pseudobulges are usually outliers; however, pseudobulges show a trend that is weakly consistent with BH scaling relations. We also provide a complementary bulge classification criterion. Next, we move on to explore the high-mass regime of SRs by including core elliptical galaxies, and we find that core galaxies tend to present flatter slopes in SRs. We highlight that the trends found across the different populations in SRs, such as classical bulges, pseudobulges, lenticular, elliptical, and core galaxies, arise from distinct evolutionary pathways.

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    #1: A dying galaxy triggers the birth of new stars
    2022/01/30

    What caused our Sun to be born? A recent paper by researchers from the Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA) suggests that the answer may lie in a small satellite galaxy that is slowly being devoured by our larger Milky Way Galaxy.

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