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Old 29-August-2007, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by rtomes View Post
Thanks, that does give additional data. However I do not want to do a data gathering exercise because then I may be accused of selecting data in testing my hypothesis. For that reason I am looking for a more recent database that is already made.
As SM said, or implied, you probably won't find such a thing, if only because the SMBH mass estimates depend on the methods used to make them, and, consequently, any list maker trying to present more than just a summary sweep through relevant papers would likely need to address some non-trivial consistency issues, especially wrt estimates of uncertainty.
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