Accretion onto nearby supermassive black holes: Chandra constraints on the dominant cluster galaxy NGC 6166

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2000-12-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012194v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

emulateapj.sty, submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/319489

Chandra observations of low-luminosity supermassive black holes in nearby elliptical galaxies provide tight limits on both their nuclear luminosities and on their Bondi accretion rates. We examine Chandra constraints on NGC 6166, the dominant galaxy in the cluster Abell 2199, which hosts a \sim 10^9 \Msun black hole. We measure a nuclear X-ray luminosity L_{x} \sim 10^{40} erg/s and show that the density and temperature profiles of the hot interstellar medium imply a Bondi accretion rate of Mdot_{Bondi} \sim 3 10^{-2} Msun/yr. This accretion rate predicts a nuclear luminosity of \sim 10^{44} erg/s for a canonical radiative efficiency of 10%. Unless the Bondi estimate is inappropriate and/or the accretion rate onto the black hole is significantly reduced, the observed nuclear flux constrains the radiative efficiency of the accretion flow to be \eta \sim 10^{-5}. We show that low-radiative efficiency accretion flows with radial density profiles \rho \approxpropto r^{-3/2} (and not significantly flatter) can explain the observed nuclear X-ray luminosity but that the power output from the jets in NGC 6166 is also important to the energetics of the system.

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