Spectral-luminosity evolution of active galactic nuclei and the cosmic X-ray background

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Apr 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991aipc..222..339l&link_type=abstract

In: After the first three minutes; Proceedings of the 1st Astrophysics Workshop, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, Oct. 15-17, 19

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Accretion Disks, Active Galactic Nuclei, Black Holes (Astronomy), Galactic Evolution, Relic Radiation, X Ray Sources, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Computational Astrophysics, Luminosity, Seyfert Galaxies

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Black hole accretion disk dynamo processes are generally regarded as the central power source for AGN (Rees, 1984). If the precursor active galaxies for such AGN are formed at redshift z greater than about 4 and contain initial central seed black holes about 10 exp 6 solar masses, then the Eddington limited X-ray radiation emitted during their lifetime will undergo the phenomenon of 'spectral-luminosity evolution'. When accretion disks are first formed at the onset of galaxy formation, the accretion rate occurs at high values of luminosity/size compactness parameter L/R greater than 10 exp 30 erg/cm-sec. Such high values of L/R generate dynamic constraints which suppress nonthermal black hole accretion disk dynamo processes in favor of thermal processes. This causes the spectrum of X-radiation emitted by early AGN to be predominantly thermal. A superposition of such thermal, comptonized PAG sources can account for the residual cosmic X-ray background and can act as a source of X-ray heating of the intergalactic medium for z greater than about 4.

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