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Feedback by Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-04-19 v1

Abstract

Could there be intermediate mass black holes in essentially all old dwarf galaxies? I argue that current observations of Active Galactic Nuclei in dwarfs allow such a radical hypothesis which provides early feedback and potentially provides a unifying explanation for many if not all of the apparent dwarf galaxy anomalies, such as the abundance, core-cusp, "too big to fail", ultra-faint and baryon-fraction issues. I describe the supporting arguments, which are largely circumstantial in nature, and discuss a number of tests. There is no strong motivation for modifying the nature of cold dark matter in order to explain any of the dwarf galaxy "problems".

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@article{arxiv.1703.08553,
  title  = {Feedback by Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies},
  author = {Joseph Silk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08553},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, ApJL submitted

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