Black hole demography: from scaling relations to models

2013/07/11 by Francesco Shankar · 3 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Black hole (networking) #Context (archaeology) #Function (biology) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Scaling #Set (abstract data type) #Space Technology and Applications #astro-ph.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/24/244001

20 pages, 5 figures. Invited article for the focus issue on astrophysical black holes in Classical and Quantum Gravity, guest editors: D.Merritt and L. Rezzolla

arxiv created 2013/07/11 · openalex publication_date 2013/11/29 · arxiv updated 2015/06/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

In this contributed paper, I review our current knowledge of the local black hole (BH) scaling relations and their impact on the determination of the local BH mass function. I particularly emphasize the remaining systematic uncertainties impinging upon a secure determination of the BH mass function and how progress can be made in this direction. I then review and discuss the evidence for a different time evolution for separate BH–galaxy scaling relations, and how these independent empirical evidences can be reconciled with the overall evolution of the structural properties of the host galaxies. I conclude discussing BH demography in the context of semi-empirical continuity accretion models, as well as more complex evolutionary models, emphasizing the general constraints we can set on them.

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