The evolution of AGN across cosmic time: what is downsizing?

Autor: Fanidakis, N., Baugh, C. M., Benson, A. J., Bower, R. G., Cole, S., Done, C., Frenk, C. S., Hickox, R. C., Lacey, C., Lagos, C. del P.
Rok vydání: 2010
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.19931.x
Popis: We use a coupled model of the formation and evolution of galaxies and black holes (BH) to study the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in a cold dark matter universe. The model predicts the BH mass, spin and mass accretion history. BH mass grows via accretion triggered by discs becoming dynamically unstable or galaxy mergers (called the starburst mode) and accretion from quasi-hydrostatic hot gas haloes (called the hot-halo mode). By taking into account AGN obscuration, we obtain a very good fit to the observed luminosity functions (LF) of AGN (optical, soft and hard X-ray, and bolometric) for a wide range of redshifts (0Comment: submitted to MNRAS, comments are welcome
Databáze: arXiv