Constraints on Galactic Intermediate Mass Black Holes

Details Constraints on Galactic Intermediate Mass Black Holes Constraints on Galactic Intermediate Mass Black Holes

2006-02-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602388v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.368:1340-1350,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 5 figures; MNRAS, in press

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10201.x

Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs; 10^1.3-5 M_sun) are thought to form as relics of Population III stars or from the runaway collapse of stars in young clusters; their number and very existence are uncertain. We ran N-body simulations of Galactic IMBHs, modelling them as a halo population distributed according to a Navarro, Frenk & White (NFW) or a more concentrated Diemand, Madau & Moore (DMM) density profile. As IMBHs pass through Galactic molecular/atomic hydrogen regions, they accrete gas, thus becoming X-ray sources. We constrain the density of Galactic IMBHs, Omega_IMBH, by comparing the distribution of simulated X-ray sources with the observed one. From the null detections of Milky Way Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources, and from a comparison of simulations with unidentified sources in the IBIS/ISGRI catalogue we find a strong upper limit Omega_IMBH <= 10^-2 Omega_b (<= 10^-1 Omega_b) for a DMM (NFW) profile, if IMBHs accrete via ADAF disks. Slightly stronger constraints (Omega_IMBH <= 10^-3 Omega_b for a DMM profile; Omega_IMBH <= 10^-2 Omega_b for a NFW profile) can be derived if IMBHs accrete with higher efficiency, such as by forming thin accretion disks. Although not very tight, such constraints are the most stringent ones derived so far in the literature.

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