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Proto-Quasars:Physical States and Observable Properties

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Based on the radiation hydrodynamical model for the black hole(BH) growth,incorporated with the chemical evolution of the early-type host galaxy, we construct the coevolution model of a QSO BH and the host galaxy. As a result, it is found that after a galactic wind epoch,the luminosity is shifted from the host-dominant phase to the AGN-dominant phase (QSO phase) in the timescale of a few 10810^{8} years.The former phase corresponds to the early stage of growing BH, and can be regarded as a ``proto-QSO'' phase. It has observable characteristic properties (detail inthis paper).By comparing these predictions with recent observations, radio galaxies are a possible candidate for proto-QSOs.Also, it is anticipated that the proto-QSO phase is preceded by an optically thick phase, which may correspond to ULIRGs.In this phase, MBH/MbulgeM_{\rm BH}/M_{\rm bulge} is predicted to be much less than 10310^{-3} and grow with metallicity.Moreover, as precursors of ULIRGs, optically-thin star-forming galaxies are predicted. These may be in the assembly phase of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) or Lyα\alpha emitters.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0209452,
  title  = {Proto-Quasars:Physical States and Observable Properties},
  author = {Nozomu Kawakatu and Masayuki Umemura and Masao Mori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0209452},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7pages,7figures,accepted for publication in ApJ

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