Nuker Team
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TheNuker Teamwas formed to use theHubble Space Telescope,with its high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy, to investigate the central structure and dynamics of galaxies. The team used theHSTto examinesupermassive black holesand determined the relationship between a galaxy's central black hole's mass and velocity dispersion.[1][2]The team continues to conduct research and publish papers on the supermassive black holes of galaxies and clusters.[3]The group was initially formed byTod R. Lauer,then a first year postdoc. At the first meeting of the group held atPrinceton Universityin June 1985,Sandra Faberwas elected the group leader.
Members
[edit]The original members of the Nuker Team includeAlan Dressler(OCIW),Sandra Faber(UCO/Lick; First PI),John Kormendy(Texas),Tod R. Lauer(NOAO),Douglas Richstone(Michigan; Present PI), andScott Tremaine(IAS). Later additions to the team includeRalf Bender(Munchen),Alexei V. Filippenko(Berkeley),Karl Gebhardt(Texas),Richard Green(LBTO),Kayhan Gultekin(Michigan),Luis C. Ho(OCIW),John Magorrian(Oxford),Jason Pinkney(Ohio Northern), andChristos Siopis(Michigan).[1]
Etymology
[edit]The name "Nuker" began as an informal internal reference by members of the team to each other, because they came together to study the nuclei of galaxies using the space telescope.[4]The first use of the name was in a 1989 email fromFaber,who addressed her five colleagues as "Dear Nukers".[5]As the team began to publish its research, the name came into general use in the scientific community.[6]
The name "Nuker" is also used in reference to the "Nuker Law",which is a description of the inner few (~3-10) arcseconds of predominantly nearby (< 30 Mpc) early-type galaxy light-profiles.[7]The Nuker Law was described first by members of the Nuker Team, from which it gets its name.[8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^abTod Lauer (14 August 2007)."HST Investigations Into the Central Structure of Galaxies".National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Archived fromthe originalon 2013-07-21.Retrieved2008-10-19.
- ^Gebhardt, Karl; et al. (August 2000). "A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion".The Astrophysical Journal.539(1): L13–L16.arXiv:astro-ph/0006289.Bibcode:2000ApJ...539L..13G.doi:10.1086/312840.S2CID11737403.
- ^Nuker Team Refereed PublicationsArchived2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine.
- ^Stern, S. Alan,Our Universe: The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration As Told by Leading Experts,Cambridge University Press, 2001ISBN0-521-78330-5andISBN0-521-78907-9.At page 80.
- ^Email from Faber to team members, sent Jule 13, 1989, which begins, "Dear Nukers: We got some time on our ST proposal for nuclei...."
- ^Alan,supra,at page 85.
- ^The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST.I.An Observational Survey
- ^Ibid.
Sources
[edit]- Stern, S. Alan,Our Universe: The Thrill of Extragalactic Exploration As Told by Leading Experts,Cambridge University Press, 2001ISBN0-521-78330-5andISBN0-521-78907-9
External links
[edit]- Tod Lauer (14 August 2007)."HST Investigations Into the Central Structure of Galaxies".National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Archived fromthe originalon 2013-07-21.Retrieved2008-10-19.
- Nuker Team Refereed PublicationsArchived2016-03-03 at theWayback Machine
- Measuring Supermassive Black Holes in Distant Galaxies
- Transcript of BBC Horizon and Science Channel documentary
- Monsters in Galactic Nuclei
