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在任何红移下,最明亮的类星体并不存在于最大质量的暗物质晕中

The most luminous quasars do not live in the most massive dark matter haloes at any redshift

N. Fanidakis, A. V. Maccio, C. M. Baugh, C. G. Lacey, C. S. Frenk

摘要:

类星体代表着宇宙中最明亮的活动星系核(AGN),并被认为是亮度高达10^48 erg/sec的惊人增长的黑洞(BH)的位置。人们通常认为,这样一个极其高能的过程将发生在暗物质(DM)分布中质量最大的束缚结构中。我们发现,与这一预期相反,在包含活动星系核反馈的星系形成模型中,类星体被预测生活在平均DM晕环境中,典型质量为10^12 M太阳的几倍。这一基本预测源于类星体活动(即,在活动星系核反馈作用的DM晕中,亮度大于10^46 erg/sec的BH吸积被抑制。在我们的模拟中,类星体的星系宿主被确定为超大质量(气体和恒星)的球状星系,其中BH吸积是通过星系合并或长期过程触发的。我们进一步证明了z=0的高红移(z~6)类星体的后代跨越了广泛的形态、星系和晕质量。到目前为止,z~6 BH通常仅增长适度的因子。值得注意的是,高红移类星体从来没有居住在当时最大的DM晕中,它们的后代很少在z=0的最大质量晕中发现。我们还表明,在观测上,它是很有可能发现的类星体周围的星系在z~5的丰度增强。然而,与DM分布的极端峰值处预期的过密度相比,这些增强明显较弱。因此,在$z\gtrsim5$宇宙中探测到的类星体不太可能精确地指出超星系团祖先在本宇宙中的位置。

英文摘要:

Quasars represent the brightest Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the Universe and are thought to indicate the location of prodigiously growing Black Holes (BHs), with luminosities as high as 10^48 erg/sec. It is often expected though that such an extremely energetic process will take place in the most massive bound structures in the dark matter (DM) distribution. We show that in contrast to this expectation, in a galaxy formation model which includes AGN feedback, quasars are predicted to live in average DM halo environments with typical masses of a few times 10^12 Msun. This fundamental prediction arises from the fact that quasar activity (i.e., BH accretion with luminosity greater than 10^46 erg/sec) is inhibited in DM haloes where AGN feedback operates. The galaxy hosts of quasars in our simulations are identified with over massive (in gas and stars) spheroidal galaxies, in which BH accretion is triggered via a galaxy merger or secular processes. We further show that the z=0 descendants of high redshift (z~6) QSOs span a wide range of morphologies, galaxy and halo masses. The z~6 BHs typically grow only by a modest factor by the present day. Remarkably, high redshift QSOs never inhabit the largest DM haloes at that time and their descendants are very seldom found in the most massive haloes at z=0. We also show that observationally it is very likely to find an enhancement in the abundance of galaxies around quasars at z~5. However, these enhancements are considerably weaker compared to the overdensities expected at the extreme peaks of the DM distribution. Thus, it is very unlikely that a quasar detected in the $z\gtrsim5$ Universe pinpoints the location of the progenitors of superclusters in the local Universe.

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