English

Evolution of the $M_{\bullet} - \sigma$ relation

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-04-14 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Black holes at the centers of the galaxies grow mainly by the processes of accretion, mergers, and consumption of stars. In the case of gas accretion with cooling sources, the flow is momentum driven, after which the black hole reaches a saturated mass, and subsequently, it grows only by consumption of stars. In addition, we include the effect of mergers on the growth of black hole spin and mass and study its evolution as a function of redshift in a Λ\LambdaCDM cosmology using an initial seed mass and spin distribution functions that we have derived. For the stellar ingestion, we have assumed a power-law density profile for the galaxy in our framework of a new relativistic loss cone theory that includes the effect of the black hole spin. We predict the impact of the evolution on the MσM_{\bullet} - \sigma relation and compare it with available observations.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1808.04536,
  title  = {Evolution of the $M_{\bullet} - \sigma$ relation},
  author = {D. Bhattacharyya and A. Mangalam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.04536},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

Accepted in proceedings of IAU Symposium 342: Perseus in Sicily: from black hole to cluster outskirts

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