Accreting SMBHs in the COSMOS field and the connection to their host galaxies
A. Bongiorno, A. Merloni, M. Brusa, B. Magnelli, M. Salvato, M. Mignoli, G. Zamorani, F. Fiore, D. Rosario, V. Mainieri, A. Comastri, C. Vignali, I. Balestra, S… 展开作者
A. Bongiorno, A. Merloni, M. Brusa, B. Magnelli, M. Salvato, M. Mignoli, G. Zamorani, F. Fiore, D. Rosario, V. Mainieri, A. Comastri, C. Vignali, I. Balestra, S. Bardelli, S. Berta, F. Civano, P. Kampczyk, E. Le Floc'h, E. Lusso, D. Lutz, L. Pozzetti, F. Pozzi, L. Riguccini, F. Shankar, J. Silverman
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32 pages, 25 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Using the wide multi-band photometry available in the COSMOS field we explore the host galaxy properties of a large sample of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) obtained by combining X-ray and optical spectroscopic selections. Based on a careful study of their Spectral Energy Distribution (SED), which has been parametrized using a 2-component (AGN+galaxy) model fit, we derived dust-corrected rest-frame magnitudes, colors, stellar masses and star formation rates (SFRs). We find that AGN hosts span a large range of stellar masses and SFRs. No color-bimodality is seen at any redshift in the AGN hosts, which are found to be mainly massive, red galaxies. Once accounting for the color-mass degeneracy in well defined mass-matched samples, we find a residual marginal enhancement of AGN incidence in redder galaxies with lower specific star formation rates, and we argue that this result might emerge because of our ability to properly account for AGN light contamination and dust extinction. Interestingly, we find that the probability for a galaxy to host a black hole growing at any given "specific accretion rate" (i.e. the ratio of X-ray luminosity to the host stellar mass) is almost independent of the host galaxy mass, while it decreases as a power-law with Lx/M. By analyzing the normalization of such probability distribution, we show how the incidence of AGN increases with redshift as rapidly as (1+z)^4, in close resemblance with the overall evolution of the specific star formation rate of the entire galaxy population. Although AGN activity and star formation in galaxies do appear to have a common triggering mechanism, at least in a statistical sense, within the COSMOS sample we do not find strong evidence of any 'smoking gun' signaling powerful AGN influence on the star-forming properties of their hosts galaxies.
Swift coalescence of supermassive black holes in cosmological mergers of massive galaxies
超大质量黑洞（SMBH）在具有相当大质量的星系中无处不在。据推测，一对最初位于两个合并星系核中的SMBH将形成一个双星，并最终通过引力波的爆发而合并。到目前为止，理论模型和模拟已经无法直接预测的SMBH合并的时间尺度从头计算星系形成理论，只集中在有限的阶段的SMBH的轨道衰减的理想条件下的星系主机。预测的SMBH合并时间尺度很长，是Gyrs级的，这可能对未来的引力波搜索造成问题。在这里，我们提出了第一个多尺度的$Λ$ CDM宇宙学模拟，遵循轨道衰变的一对SMBH在合并的两个典型的大质量星系在$z\sim3$，所有的方式，以最终的合并驱动的引力波发射。质量为$\sim10^{8}$ M $_{\odot}$的两个SMBH迅速地沉降在合并残余物的核中。由于合并的耗散性质和高红移星系的内在致密性，残余物是三轴的，并且非常致密。这样的性质自然允许SMBH二进制的非常有效的硬化。SMBH合并发生在银河系核心合并后的$\sim10$百万年内，比哈勃时间小两个数量级。
Early Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Dark Star Gravitational Instability
The University of Texas at Austin（德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校）；Stockholm University（斯德哥尔摩大学）；Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA)（北欧理论物理研究所）；University of California, San Diego（加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校）；Colgate University（科尔盖特大学）；University of Vienna（维也纳大学）；Harvard University（哈佛大学）
