John Kormendy Publications and Preprints

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Unless otherwise noted, papers are in postscript format.

Available Preprints

• Kormendy and Richstone (1995) ``Inward Bound: The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei'' Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33, 581 [0.33 Mb]
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  • Figure 7 (top)
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• Kormendy, Byun, Ajhar, Lauer, Dressler, Faber, Grillmair, Gebhardt, Richstone, and Tremaine (1996) ``An HST Survey of Cores of Early-Type Galaxies'', in IAU Symposium 171, New Light on Galaxy Evolution, ed. R. Bender and R. L. Davies (Kluwer: Dordrecht), p. 105 [1.42 Mb]

• Kormendy, Bender, Richstone, Ajhar, Dressler, Faber, Gebhardt, Grillmair, Lauer, and Tremaine (1996) ``HST Spectroscopic Evidence For A 2 x 10**9 Msun Black Hole In NGC 3115'', ApJL, 459, L57 [Caution: Whole paper is 8.8 Mb]
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  • Figure 1 [0.6 Mb]
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  • Figure 4 (color) plot only [0.15 Mb]
  • Figure 4 (color) whole page [7.8 Mb]

• Kormendy and Bender (1996) ``A Proposed Revision of the Hubble Sequence for Elliptical Galaxies'', ApJL, 464, L119 [2.8 Mb]
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• Bender, Kormendy, and Dehnen (1996) ``Improved Evidence For A 3 x 10**6 Msun Black Hole in M32: CFHT Spectroscopy With FWHM = 0.47 Arcsec Resolution'', ApJL, 464, L123 [0.6 Mb]

• Kormendy, Bender, Ajhar, Dressler, Faber, Gebhardt, Grillmair, Lauer, Magorrian, Richstone, and Tremaine (1996) ``Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopic Evidence for a 1 x 10**9 Msun Black Hole In NGC 4594'', ApJL, 473, L91 [Main text, does not include Figures 1 and 3: 0.51 Mb]
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  • Figure 1 [Color plate, uuencoded compressed version of 26 Mb color postscript file: 7.8 Mb]
  • Figure 1 [Color plate, plot only]
  • Figure 3 [Color plate: 0.16 Mb]

• Kormendy, Bender, Magorrian, Tremaine, Gebhardt, Richstone, Dressler, Faber, Grillmair, and Lauer (1997) ``Spectroscopic Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 4486B'', ApJ, 482, L139.

• Kormendy, Bender, Evans, and Richstone (1998) ``The Mass Distribution in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 3377: Evidence for a 2 x 10**8 Msun Black Hole'', AJ, 115, 1823 [4 Mb]
  • Color gif version of the latest MBH -- Mbulge correlation (Fig. 17)
  • Black and white postscript version of the latest MBH -- Mbulge correlation (Fig. 17)

• Kormendy (1999) ``The Central Structure of Elliptical Galaxies and the Stellar-Dynamical Search for Supermassive Black Holes'', in Galaxy Dynamics, ed. D. Merritt et al. (San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific), 124 [7.6 Mb]

• Kormendy and Bender (1999) ``The Double Nucleus and Central Black Hole of M31'', ApJ, 522, 772 [7.5 Mb]
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• Ho and Kormendy (2000), ``Supermassive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei'' in Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Macmillan), in press. [2.6 Mb]