Models of the AGN and black hole populations Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Shankar F.
  2. Weinberg D.H.
  3. Miralda-Escude J.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We construct evolutionary models of the populations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and supermassive black holes, in which the black hole mass function grows at the rate implied by the observed luminosity function, given assumptions about the radiative efficiency and the luminosity in Eddington units. We draw on a variety of recent X-ray and optical measurements to estimate the bolometric AGN luminosity function and compare to X-ray background data and the independent estimate of Hopkins et al. to assess remaining systematic uncertainties. The integrated AGN emissivity closely tracks the cosmic star-formation history, suggesting that star formation and black hole growth are closely linked at all redshifts.

Keywords
  1. stellar-evolutionary-models
  2. active-galactic-nuclei
  3. redshifted
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2009ApJ...690...20S
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/690/20
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/20
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.16900020

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History

2011-03-07T12:37:19Z
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2011-03-07T12:37:19Z
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