Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-07-09
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.354:427,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08201.x
We investigate the possibility that present-day galaxies and their dark matter haloes contain a population of massive black holes (MBHs) that form by hierarchical merging of the black hole remnants of the first stars in the Universe. Some of the MBHs may be large enough or close enough to the centre of the galactic host that they merge within a Hubble time. We estimate to what extent this process could contribute to the mass of the super-massive black holes (SMBHs) observed in galactic centres today. The relation between SMBH and galactic bulge mass in our model displays the same slope as that found in observations. Many MBHs will not reach the centre of the host halo, however, but continue to orbit within it. In doing so MBHs may remain associated with remnants of the satellite halo systems of which they were previously a part. Using a semi-analytical approach that explicitly accounts for dynamical friction, tidal disruption and encounters with galactic disks, we follow the hierarchical merging of MBH systems and their subsequent dynamical evolution inside the respective host haloes. We predict the mass and abundance of MBHs in present-day galactic haloes, and also estimate the MBH mass accretion rates as well as bolometric luminosities for two different accretion scenarios. MBHs that have not undergone recent merging will retain associated dark matter cusps that were enhanced by black hole accretion growth, and may be possible sources of gamma rays via neutralino annihilations.
Islam Ranty R.
Silk Joseph
Taylor James E.
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