Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-08-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Astrophysical Journal Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/324063
As a potential mechanism to build up supermassive black holes (BHs) in a spheroidal system, we consider the radiation drag effect by bulge stars, which extracts angular momentum from interstellar gas and thus allows the gas to accrete onto the galactic center. With incorporating radiation hydrodynamical equation with simple stellar evolution, it is shown that the BH-to-bulge mass ratio, $f_{BH}$, is basically determined by a fundamental constant, that is, the energy conversion efficiency for nuclear fusion of hydrogen to helium, $\epsilon=0.007$. More specifically, $f_{BH}$ is predicted to be $0.3\epsilon -0.5\epsilon$. Based on the present model for BH growth, a scenario for quasar formation is addressed in relation to ultraluminous infrared galaxies.
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