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Title:
Constraints on the accretion history of massive black holes from faint X-ray counts
Authors:
Volonteri, Marta; Salvaterra, Ruben; Haardt, Francesco
Affiliation:
AA(Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA), AB(Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Universitá dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy), AC(Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Universitá dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 373, Issue 1, pp. 121-127. (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
11/2006
Origin:
MNRAS
MNRAS Keywords:
galaxies: evolution, quasars: general, cosmology: theory
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10976.x
Bibliographic Code:
2006MNRAS.373..121V

Abstract

We investigate how hierarchical models for the co-evolution of the massive black hole (MBH) and active galactic nucleus (AGN) population can reproduce the observed faint X-ray counts. We find that the main variable influencing the theoretical predictions is the Eddington ratio of accreting sources. We compare three different models proposed for the evolution of an AGN Eddington ratio, fEdd: constant fEdd = 1, fEdd decreasing with redshift and fEdd depending on the AGN luminosity, as suggested by simulations of galactic mergers including MBHs and AGN feedback. We follow the full assembly of MBHs and host haloes from early times to the present in a Λ cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmology. An AGN activity is triggered by halo major mergers and MBH accrete mass until they satisfy the observed correlation with velocity dispersion. We find that all the three models can reproduce fairly well the total faint X-ray counts. The redshift distribution is, however, poorly matched in the first two models. The Eddington ratios suggested by merger simulations predict no turn-off of the faint end of the AGN optical luminosity function at redshifts z >~ 1, down to very low luminosity.

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