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矮星系中偏心大质量黑洞的起源

The Origins of Off-Centre Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies

Jillian M. Bellovary, Sarra Hayoune, Katheryn Chafla, Donovan Vincent, Alyson Brooks, Charlotte Christensen, Ferah Munshi, Michael Tremmel, Thomas R. Quinn, Jor… 展开作者

Jillian M. Bellovary, Sarra Hayoune, Katheryn Chafla, Donovan Vincent, Alyson Brooks, Charlotte Christensen, Ferah Munshi, Michael Tremmel, Thomas R. Quinn, Jordan Van Nest, Serena K. Sligh, Michelle Luzuriaga

摘要:

巨大的黑洞通常存在于矮星系中,模拟和观测都表明,其中相当大一部分可能偏离其宿主的中心。我们利用宇宙流体动力学模拟追踪了矮星系中偏心大质量黑洞(MBH)的演化过程,并表明偏心位置的主要原因是星系-星系合并。我们计算动力学时间尺度,并表明,偏离中心的MBH是不太可能下沉到他们的星系的中心内的哈勃时间,由于主机的势阱和低恒星密度的形状。这些游荡的MBH不太可能被电磁探测到,也没有对星系的恒星星族的可测量的动力学效应。我们的结论是,偏离中心的MBH可能是常见的矮星,特别是如果MBH的质量是小的或主机星系的恒星质量是大的。然而,探测它们是非常具有挑战性的,因为它们的吸积光度非常低,并且它们不会显著改变其宿主星系的动力学。

英文摘要:

Massive black holes often exist within dwarf galaxies, and both simulations and observations have shown that a substantial fraction of these may be off-center with respect to their hosts. We trace the evolution of off-center massive black holes (MBHs) in dwarf galaxies using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, and show that the reason for off-center locations is mainly due to galaxy-galaxy mergers. We calculate dynamical timescales and show that off-center MBHs are unlikely to sink to their galaxys' centers within a Hubble time, due to the shape of the hosts' potential wells and low stellar densities. These wandering MBHs are unlikely to be detected electromagnetically, nor is there a measurable dynamical effect on the galaxy's stellar population. We conclude that off-center MBHs may be common in dwarfs, especially if the mass of the MBH is small or the stellar mass of the host galaxy is large. However detecting them is extremely challenging, because their accretion luminosities are very low and they do not measurably alter the dynamics of their host galaxies.

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