We present a stellar dynamical mass measurement of a newly detected supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the fast-rotating, massive elliptical galaxy NGC 2693 as part of the MASSIVE survey. We combine high signal-to-noise ratio integral field spectroscopy (IFS) from the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph with wide-field data from the Mitchell Spectrograph at McDonald Observatory to extract and model stellar kinematics of NGC 2693 from the central ∼150 pc out to ∼2.5 effective radii. Observations from Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 are used to determine the stellar light distribution. We perform fully triaxial Schwarzschild orbit modeling using the latest TriOS code and a Bayesian search in 6D galaxy model parameter space to determine NGC 2693's SMBH mass (M BH), stellar mass-to-light ratio, dark matter content, and intrinsic shape. We find M BH = 1.7 ± 0.4 × 10 9 M ⊙ and a triaxial intrinsic shape with axis ratios p = b/a = 0.902 ± 0.009 and q = c / a = 0.721 − 0.010 + 0.011 , triaxiality parameter T = 0.39 ± 0.04. In comparison, the best-fit orbit model in the axisymmetric limit and (cylindrical) Jeans anisotropic model of NGC 2693 prefer M BH = 2.4 ± 0.6 × 10 9 M ⊙ and M BH = 2.9 ± 0.3 × 10 9 M ⊙ , respectively. Neither model can account for the non-axisymmetric stellar velocity features present in the IFS data.
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