Where have all the black holes gone?

Details Where have all the black holes gone? Where have all the black holes gone?

2002-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203489v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20020438

We have calculated stationary models for accretion disks around super-massive black holes in galactic nuclei. Our models show that below a critical mass flow rate of ~3 10**-3 M_Edd advection will dominate the energy budget while above that rate all the viscously liberated energy is radiated. The radiation efficiency declines steeply below that critical rate. This leads to a clear dichotomy between AGN and normal galaxies which is not so much given by differences in the mass flow rate but by the radiation efficiency. At very low mass accretion rates below 5 10**-5 M_Edd synchrotron emission and Bremsstrahlung dominate the SED, while above 2 10**-4 M Edd the inverse Compton radiation from synchrotron seed photons produce flat to inverted SEDs from the radio to X-rays. Finally we discuss the implications of these findings for AGN duty cycles and the long-term AGN evolution.

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