Radiative feedback from quasars and the growth of massive black holes in stellar spheroids

Details Radiative feedback from quasars and the growth of massive black holes in stellar spheroids Radiative feedback from quasars and the growth of massive black holes in stellar spheroids

2004-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411086v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 358 (2005) 168-180

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 11 figures, submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08763.x

We discuss the importance of feedback via photoionization and Compton heating on the co-evolution of massive black holes (MBHs) at the center of spheroidal galaxies and their stellar and gaseous components. We first assess the energetics of the radiative feedback from a typical quasar on the ambient interstellar medium. We then demonstrate that the observed Mbh-sigma relation could be established following the conversion of most of the gas of an elliptical progenitor into stars, specifically when the gas-to-stars mass ratio in the central regions has dropped to a low level ~0.01 or less, so that gas cooling is no longer able to keep up with the radiative heating by the growing central MBH. A considerable amount of the remaining gas will be expelled and both MBH accretion and star formation will proceed at significantly reduced rates thereafter, in agreement with observations of present day ellipticals. We find further support for this scenario by evolving over an equivalent Hubble time a simple, physically based toy model that additionally takes into account the mass and energy return for the spheroid evolving stellar population, a physical ingredient often neglected in similar approaches.

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