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Relics of Nuclear Activity: Do All Galaxies Have Massive Black Holes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Roeland P. van der Marel
Roeland P. van der Marel*
Affiliation:
STScI, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MB 21218, USA

Abstract

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The distribution of black hole (BH) masses M• in galaxies is constrained by photometric and kinematic studies of individual galaxies, and by the properties of the quasar population. I review our understanding of these topics, present new results of adiabatic BH growth models for HST photometry of elliptical galaxies with brightness profiles of the ‘core’ type, and discuss the implications of ground-based stellar kinematical data. It is not yet possible to uniquely determine the BH mass distribution, but the available evidence is not inconsistent with a picture in which: (i) a majority of galaxies has BHs; (ii) there is a correlation (with large scatter) between M• and spheroid luminosity Lsph of the form M• ≈ 10−2Lsph (solar B-band units); and (iii) the BHs formed in a quasar phase through mass accretion with efficiency ε ≈ 0.05.

Type
Nuclear Activity
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 186: Galaxy Interactions at High and Low Redshift , 1999 , pp. 333 - 340
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1999 

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