Present‐Day Growth of Black Holes and Bulges: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Perspective
Johns Hopkins University · Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics · +2 more institutions
Abstract
We investigate the accretion-driven growth of supermassive black holes in the low-redshift Universe using 23,000 ``Type 2'' AGN and the complete sample of 123,000 galaxies in the SDSS from which they were drawn. We use the stellar velocity dispersions of the early type galaxies and AGN hosts to estimate their black hole masses and we use the AGN [OIII]5007 emission line luminosities to estimate black hole accretion rates. We find that most present-day accretion occurs onto black holes with masses
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Authors
6- TMTimothy M. HeckmanCorresponding
Johns Hopkins University
- GKGuinevere Kauffmann
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- JBJ. Brinchmann
Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto
- SCS. Charlot
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- CTChristy Tremonti
Topics & keywords
- Astrophysics
- Physics
- Supermassive black hole
- Astronomy
- Active galactic nucleus
- Accretion (finance)
- Black hole (networking)
- Galaxy