Host dynamics and origin of Palomar-Green QSOs

Details Host dynamics and origin of Palomar-Green QSOs Host dynamics and origin of Palomar-Green QSOs

2006-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610719v1

Astrophys.J.657:102-115,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/510552

We present host-galaxy velocity dispersions of 12 local (mainly Palomar-Green) quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) measured directly from the stellar CO absorption features in the H band. The mean bulge velocity dispersion of the QSOs in our sample is 186 km/s with a standard deviation of 24 km/s. The measurement of the stellar velocity dispersion in QSOs enables us to place them on observational diagrams such as the local black-hole mass to bulge-velocity-dispersion relation and the fundamental plane of early-type galaxies. Concerning the former relation, these QSOs have higher black hole masses than most Seyfert 1 AGNs with similar velocity dispersions. On the fundamental plane, PG QSOs are located between the regions occupied by moderate-mass and giant ellipticals. The QSO bulge and black hole masses, computed from the stellar velocity dispersions, are of order 10^11 M_sun and 10^8 M_sun respectively. The Eddington efficiency of their black holes is on average 0.25, assuming that all of the bolometric luminosity originates from the active nucleus. Our data are consistent with other lines of evidence that Palomar-Green QSOs are related to galaxy mergers with gas-rich components and that they are formed in a manner similar to the most massive Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, regardless of their far-infrared emission. However, PG QSOs seem to have smaller host dispersions and different formation mechanisms than QSOs with supermassive black holes of 5x10^8-10^9 M_sun that accrete at low rates and reside in massive spheroids.

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