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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR
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Speaker: Elena Tundo (INAF Trieste, Italy)
Title: A study on the connection between galaxies and their SMBHs
Date: Wednesday, May 5th, 2010
Time: 12:00
Venue: Villa Bazzoni
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Abstract: To understand galaxy evolution we need to understand the connection
between Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies; to
this aim, we need tools that can trace this connection at high
redshift and in active galaxies, and to understand how SMBHs affect
the properties of their host galaxies in the local universe.
I present my work on this subject from two different points of view.
I tested the best tracer for the stellar velocity dispersion sigma*
between the three gas emission lines [OIII], [NII] and Halpha using
the SDSS database, in order to give a tool for the study of the
M_bh-sigma* relation even in high redshift and active galaxies.
Second, I studied a sample of both Cool Core and Non Cool Core Cluster
galaxies to test that multiwavelength broad band colors are able to
retain the recent star formation in CCC galaxies; this will give the
possibility to measure the mean star formation rate difference between
CCC and NCCC galaxies and to obtain some clues on the efficiency of
AGN feedback in quenching star formation.
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contact: Paolo Tozzi (OATS)