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穿过黑洞质量-速度色散关系的恒星星族

Stellar populations across the black hole mass - velocity dispersion relation

Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Jean P. Brodie, Remco C. E. van den Bosch, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Duncan A. Forbes

摘要:

超大质量黑洞与其宿主星系之间的协同演化是星系形成模型中普遍采用的一种模型。在没有来自活动星系核的反馈的情况下,模拟的大质量星系继续在本地宇宙中形成恒星。然而,从观察的角度来看,这种共同进化仍然不清楚。我们提出了一个恒星星族分析的星系与直接BH质量测量和BH质量-σ关系作为一个工作框架。我们发现超大质量的BH星系,即,位于最佳拟合BH质量-σ线之上的星系,往往比质量不足的BH星系更老,α元素增强更多。BH质量-σ-[α/Fe]平面中的散射明显低于标准BH质量-σ关系。我们将这种趋势解释为活动星系核对大质量星系恒星形成历史的反馈。

英文摘要:

Coevolution between supermassive black holes (BHs) and their host galaxies is universally adopted in models for galaxy formation. In the absence of feedback from active galactic nuclei, simulated massive galaxies keep forming stars in the local Universe. From an observational point of view, however, such coevolution remains unclear. We present a stellar population analysis of galaxies with direct BH mass measurements and the BH mass-σ relation as a working framework. We find that over-massive BH galaxies, i.e., galaxies lying above the best-fitting BH mass-σ line, tend to be older and more α-element enhanced than under-massive BH galaxies. The scatter in the BH mass-σ-[α/Fe] plane is significantly lower than in the standard BH mass-σ relation. We interpret this trend as an imprint of active galactic nucleus feedback on the star formation histories of massive galaxies.

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