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Mass of BL Lacs from the Velocity Dispersion of the Host Galaxy

A. Treves, N. Carangelo, R. Falomo, J. Kotilainen

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0211045

Abstract

We report on new measurements of the stellar velocity dispersion of 4 BL Lac objects for which optical spectroscopy was gathered at the ESO 3.6m using EFOSC2. Assuming the M(BH)--(sigma) relation is valid also for ellipticals hosting active nuclei we estimate the central BH mass of these BL Lacs.

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