Cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes: A view into the next two decades
Abstract
The discoveries made over the past 20 years by Chandra and XMM-Newton surveys in conjunction with multiwavelength imaging and spectroscopic data available in the same fields have significantly changed the view of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) and galaxy connection. These discoveries have opened up several exciting questions that are beyond the capabilities of current X-ray telescopes and will need to be addressed by observatories in the next two decades. As new observatories peer into the early Universe, we will begin to understand the physics and demographics of SMBH infancy (at ) and investigate the influence of their accretion on the formation of the first galaxies ( 2.1). We will also be able to understand the accretion and evolution over the cosmic history (at 1-6) of the full population of black holes in galaxies, including low accretion rate, heavily obscured AGNs at luminosities beyond the reach of current X-ray surveys (2.2 and 2.3), enabling us to resolve the connection between SMBH growth and their environment.
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@article{arxiv.1903.11091,
title = {Cosmic evolution of supermassive black holes: A view into the next two decades},
author = {Francesca Civano and Nico Cappelluti and Ryan Hickox and Rebecca Canning and James Aird and Marco Ajello and Steve Allen and Eduardo Bañados and Laura Blecha and William N. Brandt and Marcella Brusa and Francisco Carrera and Massimo Cappi and Andrea Comastri and Klaus Dolag and Megan Donahue and Martin Elvis and Giuseppina Fabbiano and Francesca Fornasini and Poshak Gandhi and Antonis Georgakakis and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann and Anton Koekemoer and Andrew Goulding and Mackenzie Jones and Sibasish Laha and Stephanie LaMassa and Giorgio Lanzuisi and Lauranne Lanz and Adam Mantz and Stefano Marchesi and Mar Mezcua and Beatriz Mingo and Kirpal Nandra and Daniel Stern and Doug Swartz and Grant Tremblay and Panayiotis Tzanavaris and Alexey Vikhlinin and Fabio Vito and Belinda Wilkes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.11091},
year = {2019}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures; Science white paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey