HST observations of low-mass BH host galaxies

Our sample is selected to have central BHs with virial masses of ~10^5^-10^6^M_{sun}_. The host galaxies have total I-band magnitudes of -23.2<M_I_<-18.8mag and bulge magnitudes of -22.9<M_I_<-16.1mag.

Detailed bulge-disk-bar decompositions with GALFIT show that 93% of the galaxies have extended disks, 39% have bars, and 5% have no bulges at all at the limits of our observations. Based on the Sersic index and bulge-to-total ratio, we conclude that the majority of the galaxies with disks are likely to contain pseudobulges and very few of these low-mass BHs live in classical bulges. The fundamental plane of our sample is offset from classical bulges and ellipticals in a way that is consistent with the scaling relations of pseudobulges.