scholarly journals A global view of the inner accretion and ejection flow around super massive black holes

2019 ◽  
Vol 630 ◽  
pp. A94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margherita Giustini ◽  
Daniel Proga
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Absorption Line ◽  
Accretion Disk ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Broad Absorption ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Broad Absorption Line ◽  
Global View

Context. Understanding the physics and geometry of accretion and ejection around super massive black holes (SMBHs) is important to understand the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and therefore of the large scale structures of the Universe. Aims. We aim at providing a simple, coherent, and global view of the sub-parsec accretion and ejection flow in AGN with varying Eddington ratio, ṁ, and black hole mass, MBH. Methods. We made use of theoretical insights, results of numerical simulations, as well as UV and X-ray observations to review the inner regions of AGN by including different accretion and ejection modes, with special emphasis on the role of radiation in driving powerful accretion disk winds from the inner regions around the central SMBH. Results. We propose five ṁ regimes where the physics of the inner accretion and ejection flow around SMBHs is expected to change, and that correspond observationally to quiescent and inactive galaxies; low luminosity AGN (LLAGN); Seyferts and mini-broad absorption line quasars (mini-BAL QSOs); narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) and broad absorption line quasars (BAL QSOs); and super-Eddington sources. We include in this scenario radiation-driven disk winds, which are strong in the high ṁ, large MBH regime, and possibly present but likely weak in the moderate ṁ, small MBH regime. Conclusions. A great diversity of the accretion/ejection flows in AGN can be explained to a good degree by varying just two fundamental properties: the Eddington ratio ṁ and the black hole mass MBH, and by the inclusion of accretion disk winds that can naturally be launched by the radiation emitted from luminous accretion disks.

scholarly journals X-ray properties of reverberation-mapped AGNs with super-Eddington accreting massive black holes

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S356) ◽  
pp. 143-143
Author(s):  
Jaya Maithil ◽  
Michael S. Brotherton ◽  
Bin Luo ◽  
Ohad Shemmer ◽  
Sarah C. Gallagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Accretion Rate ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Host Galaxies ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Photon Index ◽  
The Impact

AbstractActive Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit multi-wavelength properties that are representative of the underlying physical processes taking place in the vicinity of the accreting supermassive black hole. The black hole mass and the accretion rate are fundamental for understanding the growth of black holes, their evolution, and the impact on the host galaxies. Recent results on reverberation-mapped AGNs show that the highest accretion rate objects have systematic shorter time-lags. These super-Eddington accreting massive black holes (SEAMBHs) show BLR size 3-8 times smaller than predicted by the Radius-Luminosity (R-L) relationship. Hence, the single-epoch virial black hole mass estimates of highly accreting AGNs have an overestimation of a factor of 3-8 times. SEAMBHs likely have a slim accretion disk rather than a thin disk that is diagnostic in X-ray. I will present the extreme X-ray properties of a sample of dozen of SEAMBHs. They indeed have a steep hard X-ray photon index, Γ, and demonstrate a steeper power-law slope, ασx.

scholarly journals Gaseous Disks in the Nuclei of Elliptical Galaxies

1997 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 620-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ford ◽  
Z. Tsvetanov ◽  
L. Ferrarese ◽  
G. Kriss ◽  
W. Jaffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Accretion Disks ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Elliptical Galaxies ◽  
Central Mass ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Radio Jets

AbstractHST images have led to the discovery that small (r ~ 1″ r ~ 100 – 200 pc), well-defined, gaseous disks are common in the nuclei of elliptical galaxies. Measurements of rotational velocities in the disks provide a means to measure the central mass and search for massive black holes in the parent galaxies. The minor axes of these disks are closely aligned with the directions of the large–scale radio jets, suggesting that it is angular momentum of the disk rather than that of the black hole that determines the direction of the radio jets. Because the disks are directly observable, we can study the disks themselves, and investigate important questions which cannot be directly addressed with observations of the smaller and unresolved central accretion disks. In this paper we summarize what has been learned to date in this rapidly unfolding new field.

scholarly journals The Sub-Eddington Boundary for the Quasar Mass–Luminosity Plane: A Theoretical Perspective

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 145 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Garofalo ◽  
Damian J. Christian ◽  
Andrew M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Sloan Digital Sky Survey ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Sky Survey ◽  
Data Release ◽  
Gap Paradigm

By exploring more than sixty thousand quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5, Steinhardt & Elvis discovered a sub-Eddington boundary and a redshift-dependent drop-off at higher black hole mass, possible clues to the growth history of massive black holes. Our contribution to this special issue of Universe amounts to an application of a model for black hole accretion and jet formation to these observations. For illustrative purposes, we include ~100,000 data points from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 where the sub-Eddington boundary is also visible and propose a theoretical picture that explains these features. By appealing to thin disk theory and both the lower accretion efficiency and the time evolution of jetted quasars compared to non-jetted quasars in our “gap paradigm”, we explain two features of the sub-Eddington boundary. First, we show that a drop-off on the quasar mass-luminosity plane for larger black hole mass occurs at all redshifts. But the fraction of jetted quasars is directly related to the merger function in this paradigm, which means the jetted quasar fraction drops with decrease in redshift, which allows us to explain a second feature of the sub-Eddington boundary, namely a redshift dependence of the slope of the quasar mass–luminosity boundary at high black hole mass stemming from a change in radiative efficiency with time. We are able to reproduce the mass dependence of, as well as the oscillating behavior in, the slope of the sub-Eddington boundary as a function of time. The basic physical idea involves retrograde accretion occurring only for a subset of the more massive black holes, which implies that most spinning black holes in our model are prograde accretors. In short, this paper amounts to a qualitative overview of how a sub-Eddington boundary naturally emerges in the gap paradigm.

scholarly journals Accretion Disk Electrodynamics

1985 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 453-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. V. Coroniti
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Accretion Disk ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Relativistic Jet ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Magnetic Buoyancy ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Viscous Transport

Accretion disk electrodynamic phenomenae are separable into two classes: 1) disks and coronae with turbulent magnetic fields; 2) disks and black holes which are connected to a large-scale external magnetic field. Turbulent fields may originate in an α - ω dynamo, provide anomalous viscous transport, and sustain an active corona by magnetic buoyancy. The large-scale field can extract energy and angular momentum from the disk and black hole, and be dynamically configured into a collimated relativistic jet.

scholarly journals Ultra-luminous quasars at redshift z > 4.5 from SkyMapper

2019 ◽  
Vol 491 (2) ◽  
pp. 1970-1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Wolf ◽  
Wei Jeat Hon ◽  
Fuyan Bian ◽  
Christopher A Onken ◽  
Noura Alonzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Broad Absorption ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Motion Data ◽  
Broad Absorption Line ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Candidate Set

ABSTRACT The most luminous quasars at high-redshift harbour the fastest growing and most massive black holes in the early Universe. They are exceedingly rare and hard to find. Here, we present our search for the most luminous quasars in the redshift range from z = 4.5 to 5 using data from SkyMapper, Gaia, and WISE. We use colours to select likely high-redshift quasars and reduce the stellar contamination of the candidate set with parallax and proper motion data. In ∼12 500 deg2 of Southern sky, we find 92 candidates brighter than Rp = 18.2. Spectroscopic follow-up has revealed 21 quasars at z ≥ 4 (16 of which are within z = [4.5, 5]), as well as several red quasars, Broad-Absorption-Line (BAL) quasars and objects with unusual spectra, which we tentatively label OFeLoBALQSOs at redshifts of z ≈ 1 to 2. This work lifts the number of known bright z ≥ 4.5 quasars in the Southern hemisphere from 10 to 26 and brings the total number of quasars known at Rp < 18.2 and z ≥ 4.5 to 42.

scholarly journals Studying the outskirts of reverberation mapped AGNs

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S324) ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Shai Kaspi
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
High Redshift ◽  
Mapping Technique ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
High Luminosity ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Reverberation Mapping ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types

AbstractAbout 100 AGNs have their black hole mass measured directly using the reverberation mapping technique over the past few decades. By now we have high enough numbers to explore unique subsamples within these objects and to study phenomena across variety of AGNs. I will review recent reverberation mapping studies which focus on high-redshift high-luminosity AGNs and on AGNs with super-Eddington accreting massive black holes. These studies enable to investigate the BLR size, mass, and luminosity relations in different subsamples of AGNs and to check whether there are differences in these relations in different types of AGNs. In particular I will discuss the following questions: Is the BLR size - luminosity relation the same over the whole AGNs luminosity range? Are there different relations for different types of AGNs? What are these studies teaching us about theory of accretion into black holes in AGNs?

scholarly journals Black hole – Galaxy correlations in simba

2019 ◽  
Vol 487 (4) ◽  
pp. 5764-5780 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Thomas ◽  
Romeel Davé ◽  
Daniel Anglés-Alcázar ◽  
Matt Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Formation Rate ◽  
Mass Function ◽  
Gas Content ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Star Forming ◽  
Rate Versus ◽  
Stellar Velocity

ABSTRACT We examine the co-evolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes in the simba cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. simba grows black holes via gravitational torque-limited accretion from cold gas and Bondi accretion from hot gas, while feedback from black holes is modelled in radiative and jet modes depending on the Eddington ratio (fEdd). simba shows generally good agreement with local studies of black hole properties, such as the black hole mass–stellar velocity dispersion (MBH–σ) relation, the black hole accretion rate versus star formation rate (BHAR–SFR), and the black hole mass function. MBH–σ evolves such that galaxies at a given MBH have higher σ at higher redshift, consistent with no evolution in MBH–M⋆. For $M_{\rm BH}\lesssim 10^8\, {\rm M}_{\odot }$, fEdd is anticorrelated with MBH since the BHAR is approximately independent of MBH, while at higher masses fEdd–MBH flattens and has a larger scatter. BHAR versus SFR is invariant with redshift, but fEdd drops steadily with time at a given MBH, such that all but the most massive black holes are accreting in a radiatively efficient mode at $z\gtrsim 2$. The black hole mass function amplitude decreases with redshift and is locally dominated by quiescent galaxies for MBH > 108 M⊙, but for $z\gtrsim 1$ star-forming galaxies dominate at all MBH. The z = 0 fEdd distribution is roughly lognormal with a peak at $f_{\rm Edd}\lesssim 0.01$ as observed, shifting to higher fEdd at higher redshifts. Finally, we study the dependence of black hole properties with H i content and find that the correlation between gas content and SFR is modulated by black hole properties, such that higher SFR galaxies at a given gas content have smaller black holes with higher fEdd.

scholarly journals 9.1. HST detections of massive black holes in the centers of galaxies

1998 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 377-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
H.C. Ford ◽  
Z.I. Tsvetanov ◽  
L. Ferrarese ◽  
W. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Hubble Space Telescope ◽  
Spherical Aberration ◽  
Proper Motions ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Ngc 1068 ◽  
Better Than

After correcting spherical aberration in the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, the central masses of galaxies can be measured with a resolution 5 to 10 times better than can be achieved at the best terrestrial sites. This improvement in resolution is decisive for detecting the gravitational signature of massive black holes in galaxy nuclei. The discovery of small (r ~ 100–200 pc) rotating gaseous and stellar disks in the centers of many early-type galaxies provides a new and efficient means for measuring the central potentials of galaxies. Concomitantly, VLBI observations of H2O masers in the nuclei of NGC 4258 and NGC 1068 revealed exquisite Keplerian rotation curves around massive black holes at radii as small as 0.1 pc. Recent terrestrial K-band measurements of the proper motions of stars in the cluster at the center of the galaxy provide irrefutable evidence for a black hole with a mass of 2.7 × 106M⊙. At the time of this symposium, the presence of central massive black holes has been established in 12 galaxies. The evidence suggests that there are massive black holes in the centers of all AGNs and in most, if not all, nucleated galaxies. The present data show at best a weak correlation between black hole mass and bulge luminosity.

scholarly journals Discovery of a 12 billion solar mass black hole at redshift 6.3 and its challenge to the black hole/galaxy coevolution at cosmic dawn

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (S319) ◽  
pp. 80-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue-Bing Wu ◽  
Feige Wang ◽  
Xiaohui Fan ◽  
Weimin Yi ◽  
Wenwen Zuo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Host Galaxy ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Solar Mass ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Mass Assembly

AbstractThe existence of black holes with masses of about one billion solar masses in quasars at redshifts z > 6 presents significant challenges to theories of the formation and growth of black holes and the black hole/galaxy co-evolution in the early Universe. Here we report a recent discovery of an ultra-luminous quasar at redshift z = 6.30, which has an observed optical and near-infrared luminosity a few times greater than those of previously known z > 6 quasars. With near-infrared spectroscopy, we obtain a black hole mass of about 12 billion solar masses, which is well consistent with the mass derived by assuming an Eddington-limited accretion. This ultra-luminous quasar with at z > 6 provides a unique laboratory to the study of the mass assembly and galaxy formation around the most massive black holes at cosmic dawn. It raises further challenges to the black hole/galaxy co-evolution in the epoch of cosmic reionization because the black hole needs to grow much faster than the host galaxy.

scholarly journals Black hole and nuclear cluster scaling relations: Mbh ∝ Mnc2.7±0.7

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (S312) ◽  
pp. 269-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alister W. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Star Clusters ◽  
Compact Object ◽  
Scaling Relations ◽  
Black Hole Mass ◽  
Massive Black Holes ◽  
Mass Scaling ◽  
Nuclear Cluster ◽  
Evolutionary Growth

AbstractThere is a growing array of supermassive black hole and nuclear star cluster scaling relations with their host spheroid, including a bent (black hole mass)–(host spheroid mass) Mbh–Msph relation and a different (massive compact object mass)–(host spheroid velocity dispersion) Mmco–σ relations for black holes and nuclear star clusters. By combining the observed Mbh ∝ σ5.5 relation with the observed Mnc ∝ σ1.6–2.7 relation, we derive the expression Mbh ∝ Mnc2–3.4, which should hold until the nuclear star clusters are eventually destroyed in the larger core-Sérsic spheroids. This new mass scaling relation helps better quantify the rapid evolutionary growth of massive black holes in dense star clusters, and the relation is consistently recovered when coupling the observed Mnc ∝ Msph0.6–1.0 relation with the recently observed quadratic relation Mbh ∝ Msph2 for Sérsic spheroids.

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