Defining the (Black Hole)-Spheroid Connection with the Discovery of Morphology-Dependent Substructure in the M BH-- nsph and M BH-- Re, sph Diagrams: New Tests for Advanced Theories and Realistic Simulations

Abstract

For 123 local galaxies with directly-measured black hole masses (M BH), we provide the host spheroid's S\'ersic index ( nsph), effective half-light radius ( Re,sph), and effective surface brightness (μe), obtained from careful multi-component decompositions, and we use these to derive the morphology-dependent M BH-- nsph and M BH-- Re,sph relations. We additionally present the morphology-dependent M *,sph-- nsph and M *,sph-- Re,sph relations. We explored differences due to: early-type galaxies (ETGs) versus late-type galaxies (LTGs); S\'ersic versus core-S\'ersic galaxies; barred versus non-barred galaxies; and galaxies with and without a stellar disk. We detect two different M BH-- nsph relations due to ETGs and LTGs with power-law slopes 3.950.34 and 2.85 0.31. We additionally quantified the correlation between M BH and the spheroid's central concentration index, which varies monotonically with the S\'ersic index. Furthermore, we observe a single, near-linear M *,sph-- Re,sph1.08 0.04 relation for ETGs and LTGs, which encompasses both classical and alleged pseudobulges. In contrast, ETGs and LTGs define two distinct M BH-- Re,sph relations with rms|BH 0.60~dex (cf.\ 0.51~dex for the M BH--σ relation and 0.58~dex for the M BH--M *,sph relation), and the ETGs alone define two steeper M BH-- Re,sph relations, offset by 1~dex in the M BH-direction, depending on whether they have a disk or not and explaining their similar offset in the M BH--M *,sph diagram. This trend holds using 10 \%, 50 \%, or 90 \% radii.(Abridged)

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