Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-08-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.308:L39-L43,1999
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, no figures, MN LATEX style, accepted for publication in the MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.03017.x
The mass density of massive black holes observed locally is consistent with the hard X-ray Background provided that most of the radiation produced during their growth was absorbed by surrounding gas. A simple model is proposed here for the formation of galaxy bulges and central black holes in which young spheroidal galaxies have a significant distributed component of cold dusty clouds which accounts for the absorption. The central accreting black hole is assumed to emit both a quasar-like spectrum, which is absorbed by the surrounding gas, and a slow wind. The power in both is less than the Eddington limit for the black hole. The wind however exerts the most force on the gas and, as earlier suggested by Silk & Rees, when the black hole reaches a critical mass, it is powerful enough to eject the cold gas from the galaxy, so terminating the growth of both black hole and galaxy. In the present model this point occurs when the Thomson depth in the surrounding gas has dropped to about unity and results in the mass of the black hole being proportional to the mass of the spheroid, with the normalization agreeing with that found for local galaxies by Magorrian et al. for reasonable wind parameters. The model predicts a new population of hard X-ray and sub-mm sources at redshifts above one which are powered by black holes in their main growth phase.
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