Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-07-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
8 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, submitted to A&A
Scientific paper
Context. In order to study the association of the origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with active galactic nuclei (AGN) at all levels of their activity we require an unbiased sample of black holes. Aims. Here we describe such a sample, of about 6 000 black holes, within the local Universe, inside the GZK (Greisen Zatsepin Kuzmin) limit, around 100 Mpc. Methods. The starting point is the 2 micron all sky survey, with the next steps as: test its com- pleteness down to low flux densities, confine it to redshifts z < 0.025, limit it to early Hubble type galaxies, test with B-V colors and with the FIR/Radio ratio the possible separation in classes of sources for the ultra high energy cosmic rays, use the spheroidal stellar component - black hole mass relationship to derive black hole masses, and test them with known black hole masses. Results. The statistics are consistent with the mass function of black hole masses, with a rel- atively flat distribution to about 10^8 Msol, and thereafter a very steep spectrum. Our sample cuts off just below 10^7 Msol, indicating a gap for lower masses, below somewhere near 10^6 Msol. We construct the sky distribution for all black holes above 10^7 Msol, 10^8 Msol, and 3 x 10^8 Msol, and also show the sky distribution for the five redshift ranges 0.0 - 0.005, 0.005 - 0.0010, 0.010 - 0.015, 0.015 - 0.020, and 0.020 to 0.025.
Biermann Peter L.
Caramete Laurentiu I.
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