scholarly journals Cosmological evolution across phantom crossing and the nature of the horizons

2011 ◽  
Vol 334 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nairwita Mazumder ◽  
Ritabrata Biswas ◽  
Subenoy Chakraborty
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (S290) ◽  
pp. 259-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan-Rong Li ◽  
Jian-Min Wang ◽  
Luis C. Ho

AbstractWe derive the mass function of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) over the redshift range 0 > z ≲ 2, using the latest deep luminosity and mass functions of field galaxies. Applying this mass function, combined with the bolometric luminosity function of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), into the the continuity equation of SMBH number density, we explicitly obtain the mass-dependent cosmological evolution of the radiative efficiency for accretion. We suggest that the accretion history of SMBHs and their spins evolve in two distinct regimes: an early phase of prolonged accretion, plausibly driven by major mergers, during which the black hole spins up, then switching to a period of random, episodic accretion, governed by minor mergers and internal secular processes, during which the hole spins down. The transition epoch depends on mass, mirroring other evidence for “cosmic downsizing” in the AGN population.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (S342) ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
M. Guainazzi ◽  
M. S. Tashiro

AbstractX-ray spectroscopy is key to address the theme of “The Hot Universe”, the still poorly understood astrophysical processes driving the cosmological evolution of the baryonic hot gas traceable through its electromagnetic radiation. Two future X-ray observatories: the JAXA-led XRISM (due to launch in the early 2020s), and the ESA Cosmic Vision L-class mission Athena (early 2030s) will provide breakthroughs in our understanding of how and when large-scale hot gas structures formed in the Universe, and in tracking their evolution from the formation epoch to the present day.


2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (04) ◽  
pp. 1250014 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAVAN K. ALURI ◽  
PANKAJ JAIN

We show that perturbations generated during the anisotropic pre-inflationary stage of cosmic evolution may affect cosmological observations today for a certain range of parameters. Due to the anisotropic nature of the universe during such early times, it might explain some of the observed signals of large scale anisotropy. In particular, we argue that the alignment of CMB quadrupole and octopole may be explained by the Sachs–Wolfe effect due to the large scale anisotropic modes from very early times of cosmological evolution. We also comment on how the observed dipole modulation of CMB power may be explained within this framework.


1996 ◽  
Vol 111 (12) ◽  
pp. 1481-1486
Author(s):  
A. Beesham

Author(s):  
Yu.G. Ignat’ev ◽  
◽  
A.R. Samigullina ◽  

A study and computer simulation of a complete model of the cosmological evolution of a classical scalar field with a Higgs potential is carried out without the assumption that the Hubble constant is nonnegative. It is shown that in most cases of initial conditions the cosmological model passes from the expansion stage to the compression stage. Thus, cosmological models based on the classical Higgs field are unstable with respect to finite perturbations.


2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (S238) ◽  
pp. 65-70
Author(s):  
Andrea Merloni ◽  
Sebastian Heinz

AbstractWe present a first attempt to derive the cosmological evolution of the kinetic luminosity function of AGN based on the joint evolution of the flat spectrum radio and hard X-ray selected AGN luminosity functions. An empirical correlation between jet power and radio core luminosity is found, which is consistent with the theoretical assumption that, below a certain Eddington ratio, SMBH accrete in a radiatively inefficient way, while most of the energy output is in the form of kinetic energy.We show how the redshift evolution of the kinetic power density from such a low-ṁ mode of accretion makes it a good candidate to explain the so-called “radio mode” of AGN feedback as outlined in many galaxy formation schemes.


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