Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011sacm.confe..36b&link_type=abstract
The Starburst-AGN Connection under the Multiwavelength Limelight, held 14-16 September 2011. Published online at http://www.scio
Physics
Scientific paper
The tight relation between galaxy bulges and black holes shows that star formation and accretion must have co-evolved throughout the history of the Universe. The leading hypothesis is that intense periods of star formation and black hole growth concurrently occur in the history of massive galaxies, possibly triggered by mergers. The feedback from the AGN could terminate the star formation and, eventually, extinguish the AGN itself. The complex physics involved in such a scenario is, however, poorly understood. The best class of objects to investigate the relative time-scales of this feedback are the post-starburst galaxies, i.e. galaxies observed shortly after the star-formation has ended (about 0.1-1 Gyr). ~0.3% of the SDSS galaxies in the local Universe show evidence in the optical band of the presence of both a nucleus still accreting in their centre and a post-starburst signature. This suggests that the switching off for a starburst event occurs before the extinguishing of the nuclear activity. However, it is not clear whether this result is a common law in the feedback mechanisms. Here we present a project devoted to study the X-ray emission of the apparently quiescent post-starburst galaxies detected in the SDSS, to deeply investigate the real lack of nuclear activity (possibly obscured in the optical band), and to study the energetics of these systems.
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