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双模星系核中的双模活动星系核

Bimodal AGNs in Bimodal Galaxies

A. Cavaliere, N. Menci

摘要:

根据其恒星含量,星系分裂为红色和蓝色种群;它们的颜色指数分别在u-r=2.5或u-r=1左右达到峰值,量化了由冷银河系气体新形成的蓝色恒星与过去几代人留下的较红恒星的比例。另一方面,在吸积大量的气体量的中央大质量黑洞激活活动星系核(AGN),在这里,我们调查是否显示出类似的,可能相关的,双峰分区为当前的吸积活动相对于过去。为此,我们使用一个更新的半解析模型,基于蒙特卡罗模拟,这如下与一个大的统计星系组合,恒星世代和黑洞吸积的宇宙学框架的红移跨度从z=10到z=0。我们测试我们的模拟产生密切的细节观察分裂成一个红色的星系,早期和蓝色的,晚人口。我们发现,黑洞吸积活动同样产生两个源人口:早期,明亮的类星体和后来,暗淡的活动星系核。我们预测他们的爱丁顿参数$λ_E$ -当前与过去的黑洞吸积的比率-双峰分布;这两个分支现在位于$λ_E \approx 0.01$(主要由低光度活动星系核贡献)和$λ_E \approx 0.3-1$周围。这不仅标志着AGN的两个种群,而且将与其宿主星系的红色或蓝色强烈相关。

英文摘要:

By their star content, the galaxies split out into a red and a blue population; their color index peaked around u-r=2.5 or u-r=1, respectively, quantifies the ratio of the blue stars newly formed from cold galactic gas, to the redder ones left over by past generations. On the other hand, upon accreting substantial gas amounts the central massive black holes energize active galactic nuclei (AGNs); here we investigate whether these show a similar, and possibly related, bimodal partition as for current accretion activity relative to the past. To this aim we use an updated semianalytic model; based on Monte Carlo simulations, this follows with a large statistics the galaxy assemblage, the star generations and the black hole accretions in the cosmological framework over the redshift span from z=10 to z=0. We test our simulations for yielding in close detail the observed split of galaxies into a red, early and a blue, late population. We find that the black hole accretion activities likewise give rise to two source populations: early, bright quasars and later, dimmer AGNs. We predict for their Eddington parameter $λ_E$ -- the ratio of the current to the past black hole accretions -- a bimodal distribution; the two branches sit now under $λ_E \approx 0.01$ (mainly contributed by low-luminosity AGNs) and around $λ_E \approx 0.3-1$. These not only mark out the two populations of AGNs, but also will turn out to correlate strongly with the red or blue color of their host galaxies.

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