Competitive Black Hole Growth in Bulgeless Disk Galaxies

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Recent observations and theoretical developments suggest that tight relations exist between the mass of a supermassive black hole and the properties of the spheroidal component of its host galaxy. These correlations call into question whether a bulgeless disk galaxy lacking a genuine spheroidal component can host a supermassive black hole, as do HST observations placing an upper limit of 1500 solar masses on the black hole at the center of the nearby pure disk galaxy M33. Here we use a simple semianalytic model to explore the competitive grown of a supermassive black hole, galactic disk, and nuclear star cluster in the host galaxy's dark matter halo. We place constraints on galactic star formation and accretion histories consistent with the absence of a supermassive black hole.

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