Cosmic Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes
Abstract
An extraordinary recent development in astrophysics was the discovery of the fossil relationship between central black hole mass and the stellar mass of galactic bulges. The physical process underpinning this relationship has become known as feedback. The Chandra X-ray Observatory was instrumental in realizing the physical basis for feedback, by demonstrating a tight coupling between the energy released by supermassive black holes and the gaseous structures surrounding them. This white paper discusses how a great leap forward in X-ray collecting area and spectral resolution will allow a qualitatively new way of studying how feedback from black holes influenced the growth of structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0903.4424,
title = {Cosmic Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes},
author = {A. Fabian and E. Churazov and M. Donahue and W. R. Forman and M. R. Garcia and S. Heinz and B. R. McNamara and K. Nandra and P. Nulsen and P. Ogle and E. S. Perlman and D. Proga and M. J. Rees and C. L. Sarazin and R. A. Sunyaev and G. B. Taylor and S. D. M. White and A. Vikhlinin and D. M. Worrall},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4424},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Science white paper submitted to the Astro2010 Decadal Survey