Quasar Luminosity Functions from Joint Evolution of Black Holes and Host Galaxies

By A. Lapi, Francesco Shankar, J. Mao, G. Granato, Laura Silva, G. Zotti, L. Danese. 2006

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We show that our previously proposed antihierarchical baryon collapse scenario for the joint evolution of black holes and host galaxies predicts quasar luminosity functions at redshifts 1.5 ≲ z ≲ 6 and local properties in nice agreement with observations. In our model the quasar activity marks and originates the transition between an earlier phase of violent and heavily dust-enshrouded starburst activity promoting rapid black hole growth, and a later phase of almost passive evolution; the former is traced by the submillimeter-selected sources, while the latter accounts for the high number density of massive galaxies at substantial redshifts z ≳ 1.5, the population of extremely red objects, and the properties of local elliptical galaxies.

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The Dramatic Size Evolution of Elliptical Galaxies and the Quasar Feedback (2008, methodology): “For sake of definiteness, we will present quantitative estimates exploiting the model by Granato et al. (2004), which reproduces the crucial observational features of the coevolution of quasars and elliptical galaxies (see Lapi et al. 2006 for a comprehensive discussion).”
The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths (2012, methodology): “We adopt the counts predicted by the model of Lapi et al. (2006), which successfully accounts for a broad variety of data including the SCUBA and MAMBO counts and the preliminary redshift distribution (Chapman et al. 2005).”
Astrophysical and cosmological information from large-scale submillimetre surveys of extragalactic sources (2007, background): “It is thus strongly constrained by, and indeed accounts for huge amounts of multifrequency data at different redshifts (Silva et al. 2005; Cirasuolo et al. 2005; Shankar et al. 2006; Granato et al. 2006; Lapi et al. 2006).”
Stellar and Quasar Feedback in Concert: Effects on AGN Accretion, Obscuration, and Outflows (2015, background): “…has been able to explain many quasar observables, including luminosity functions, lifetimes, and ∗ E-mail:phopkins@caltech.edu BH mass functions (Hopkins et al. 2005b, 2006c, 2008b, 2009a; Volonteri et al. 2006; Menci et al. 2003; Somerville et al. 2008; Lapi et al. 2006; Tortora et al. 2009).”
Quasar feedback: more bang for your buck (2009, background): “These scenarios have been able to explain many quasar observables, including luminosity functions, lifetimes and BH mass functions (Menci et al. 2003; Hopkins et al. 2005b, 2006c, 2008a, 2009; Lapi et al. 2006; Volonteri, Salvaterra & Haardt 2006; Somerville et al. 2008; Tortora et al. 2009).”
Evolution of the AGN UV luminosity function from redshift 7.5 (2018, background): “…observed to exist between the mass of these black holes and properties of their host galaxies, and the increasing consensus that AGN activity feeds back on the host galaxy evolution, the AGN luminosity function also constrains models of galaxy formation (Lapi et al. 2006; Marulli et al. 2008).”
A Cosmological Framework for the Co-Evolution of Quasars, Supermassive Black Holes, and Elliptical Galaxies. I. Galaxy Mergers and Quasar Activity (2007, methodology): “This places strong constraints on secular models, as above, as well as models in which essentially all high-redshift star formation is in bulges or some sort of dissipational collapse (e.g., Granato et al. 2004; Lapi et al. 2006).”
Accretion-driven evolution of black holes: Eddington ratios, duty cycles and active galaxy fractions (2011, background): “…Babić et al. 2007; Netzer & Trakhtenbrot 2007; Rovilos & Georgantopoulos 2007; Fine et al. 2008; H09), and it could arise theoretically in models that envisage a faster shut-off of activity in more massive systems due to AGN feedback (e.g., Matteucci 1994; Granato et al. 2006; Lapi et al. 2006).”
The evolution of massive black holes and their spins in their galactic hosts (2012, methodology): “Another possibility would be to adopt the galaxy-formation model of Cook, Lapi, & Granato (2009); Cook et al. (2010a,b),in which the baryonic evolution is driven by the two-phase structural evolution of the dark-matter haloes (Zhao et al. 2003a,b; Mo & Mao 2004; Diemand, Kuhlen, & Madau 2007), and p”
Selection bias in dynamically measured supermassive black hole samples: its consequences and the quest for the most fundamental relation (2016, background): “…2016 RAS, MNRAS000, 1– 20 A number of observations and black hole accretion models (e.g., Marconi et al. 2004; Merloni 2004; Granato et al. 2006; Lapi et al. 2006; Zheng et al. 2009; Silverman et al. 2008; Shankar et al. 2009b; Mullaney et al. 2012; Lapi et al. 2014) suggest some degree of…”
HERSCHEL-ATLAS GALAXY COUNTS AND HIGH-REDSHIFT LUMINOSITY FUNCTIONS: THE FORMATION OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES (2011, methodology): “This implies that the optical visibility time of the QSOs is about a factor of 30 shorter than the duration of the sub-mm bright phase, in agreement with independent estimates (Shankar et al. 2004; Marconi et al. 2004; see also Lapi et al. 2006).”
Radio and millimeter continuum surveys and their astrophysical implications (2009, background): “One mode (Granato et al. 2004; Lapi et al. 2006; Cook et al. 2009) has it that these galaxies generated most of their stars during an early, fast collapse featuring a few violent, gas rich, major mergers; only a minor mass fraction may have been added later by minor mergers.”
Faint high-redshift AGN in the Chandra deep field south: the evolution of the AGN luminosity function and black hole demography (2011, methodology): “This class of models consists of two ingredients: a DM halo merger rate compatible with cosmological simulations, and an input AGN light curve (e.g., Wyithe & Loeb 2003; Lapi et al. 2006; Shen 2009; Shankar 2009, 2010, and references therein).”