Disky elliptical galaxies and the allegedly over-massive black hole in
  the compact massive `ES' galaxy NGC 1271
  While spiral and lenticular galaxies have large-scale disks extending beyond
their bulges, and most local early-type galaxies with 10^{10} < M_*/M_Sun <
2x10^{11} contain a disk (e.g., ATLAS^3D), the early-type galaxies do possess a
range of disk sizes. The edge-on, `intermediate-scale' disk in the `disky
elliptical' galaxy NGC 1271 has led to some uncertainty as to what its
spheroidal component is. Walsh et al. reported a directly measured black hole
mass of 3x10^9 M_Sun for this galaxy; which they remarked was an order of
magnitude greater than what they expected based on their derivation of the host
spheroid's luminosity. Our near-infrared image analysis supports a small
embedded disk within a massive spheroidal component with M_{sph,*} =
(0.9+/-0.2)x10^{11} M_Sun (using M_*/L_H = 1.4 from Walsh et al.). This places
NGC 1271 just 1.6-sigma above the near-linear M_bh-M_{sph,*} relation for
early-type galaxies. Therefore, past speculation that there may be a systematic
difference in the black hole scaling relations between compact massive
early-type galaxies with intermediate-scale disks, i.e. ES galaxies such as NGC
1271, and early-type galaxies with either no substantial disk (E) or a
large-scale disk (S0) is not strongly supported by NGC 1271. We additionally
(i) show how ES galaxies fit naturally in the (`bulge'-to-total)-(morphological
type) diagram, while noting a complication with recent revisions to the
Hubble-Jeans tuning-fork diagram, (ii) caution about claims of over-massive
black holes in other ES galaxies if incorrectly modelled as S0 galaxies, and
(iii) reveal that the compact massive spheroid in NGC 1271 has properties
similar to bright bulges in other galaxies which have grown larger-scale disks.
