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静止与直接测量的中央星系中的黑洞质量密切相关

Quiescence correlates strongly with directly-measured black hole mass in central galaxies

Bryan A. Terrazas, Eric F. Bell, Bruno M. B. Henriques, Simon D. M. White, Andrea Cattaneo, Joanna Woo

摘要:

大约有一半的恒星居住在没有显著恒星形成的星系中。然而,星系形成模型表明,在位于其暗物质晕中心的星系中,抑制气体冷却和恒星形成在能量上是具有挑战性的。在这封信中,我们表明,静止对黑洞和恒星质量的依赖是一个强大的判别不同的模型之间的机制,抑制恒星形成。通过对91个直接测量黑洞质量的恒星形成星系和静止星系的观测,我们发现静止星系比具有相似恒星质量的恒星形成星系拥有更多的大质量黑洞。这一观测结果与假设有效的、或多或少连续的活动星系核反馈抑制恒星形成的模型定性一致,强烈暗示了黑洞在产生中心星系静止中的重要性。

英文摘要:

Roughly half of all stars reside in galaxies without significant ongoing star formation. However, galaxy formation models indicate that it is energetically challenging to suppress the cooling of gas and the formation of stars in galaxies that lie at the centers of their dark matter halos. In this Letter, we show that the dependence of quiescence on black hole and stellar mass is a powerful discriminant between differing models for the mechanisms that suppress star formation. Using observations of 91 star-forming and quiescent central galaxies with directly-measured black hole masses, we find that quiescent galaxies host more massive black holes than star-forming galaxies with similar stellar masses. This observational result is in qualitative agreement with models that assume that effective, more-or-less continuous AGN feedback suppresses star formation, strongly suggesting the importance of the black hole in producing quiescence in central galaxies.

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