A Supermassive Black Hole Mass Measurement in NGC 5102 with Schwarzschild Orbit-superposition Modeling

arXiv:2607.26186 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-28 · Read on arXiv

Thomas K. Waters, Kayhan Gultekin, Karl Gebhardt, Soch Foskic, Ahmad Kadri

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-28

Comments: 23 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ae8793

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Velocity Dispersion — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 11× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• AGN — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Anisotropy — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• European Southern Observatory — 5× in this paper
• Jeans Anisotropic Modeling — 5× in this paper
• Robustness — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Regularization — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Anti-correlation — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Aperture — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• External Validation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Objective Function — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN Environments — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptive Sampling — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Carnegie Galaxy Survey — 1× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Over-smoothing — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers — 1× in this paper
• Systematic Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Causal Discovery of Latent Variables in Galactic Archaeology
• Beyond Causal Discovery for Astronomy: Learning Meaningful Representations with Independent Component Analysis
• Causa prima: cosmology meets causal discovery for the first time
• Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies
• Quasars and Galaxy Formation

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