We present a stellar dynamical mass measurement of a newly detected supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the fast-rotating, massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2693 as part of the MASSIVE survey. We combine high signal-to-noise ratio integral field spectroscopy (IFS) from the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph with wide-field data from the Mitchell Spectrograph at McDonald Observatory to extract and model stellar kinematics of NGC 2693 from the central ∼150 pc out to ∼2.5 effective radii. Observations from Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 are used to determine the stellar light distribution. We perform fully triaxial Schwarzschild orbit modeling using the latest TriOS code and a Bayesian search in 6D galaxy model parameter space to determine NGC 2693's SMBH mass (
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10371467
- Journal Name:
- Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Volume:
- 67
- Issue:
- 18
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- Article No. 185006
- ISSN:
- 0031-9155
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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