Do all QSOs have the same black hole mass?

Details Do all QSOs have the same black hole mass? Do all QSOs have the same black hole mass?

2011-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/1105.2547v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

10 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS, typos corrected, references added

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QSOs from SDSS, 2QZ and 2SLAQ covering an order of magnitude in luminosity at fixed redshift exhibit similar amplitudes of clustering. In addition, QSO clustering evolution at z>0.5 is well fitted by a model that assumes a fixed host halo mass, implying that QSOs may occur in a relatively narrow range of halo and BH mass. We argue that the slow evolution of early-type galaxies out to z~1-2 may also provide support for a slow evolution of QSO host BH masses. The result would mean that if high-z QSOs radiate at Eddington rates then low-z SyI must radiate at ~100x less than Eddington. We conclude that models where QSOs radiate at L_Edd require M_BH and M_halo to be decoupled to circumvent the clustering results. While single BH mass and flickering models fit the z>0.5 clustering results, they appear to be rejected by the z~0, M_BH-L relation from reverberation mapping. We find that the inclusion of z<0.5 QSO clustering data improves the fit of a long-lived QSO model and suggest that the predictions of a PLE model for QSO BH masses agree reasonably with UV-bump and reverberation estimates (abridged).

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