The ASTRID simulation: the evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
The ASTRID simulation: the evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
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ASTRID 模拟:超大质量黑洞的演化
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stac351
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发表时间:
2021
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影响因子:
14.1
通讯作者:
Yin Li
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作者:
Y. Ni;T. Matteo;Simeon Bird;R. Croft;Yu Feng;Nianyi Chen;M. Tremmel;C. Degraf;Yin Li
We present the evolution of black holes (BHs) and their relationship with their host galaxies in Astrid , a large-volume cosmological hydrodynamical simulation with box size 250 h−1Mpc containing 2 × 55003 particles evolved to z = 3. Astrid statistically models BH gas accretion and AGN feedback to their environments, applies a power-law distribution for BH seedmass Msd, uses a dynamical friction model for BH dynamics and executes a physical treatment of BH mergers. The BH population is broadly consistent with empirical constraints on the BH mass function, the bright end of the luminosity functions, and the time evolution of BH mass and accretion rate density. The BH mass and accretion exhibit a tight correlation with host stellar mass and star formation rate. We trace BHs seeded before z > 10 down to z = 3, finding that BHs carry virtually no imprint of the initial Msd except those with the smallest Msd, where less than 50% of them have doubled in mass. Gas accretion is the dominant channel for BH growth compared to BH mergers. With dynamical friction, Astrid predicts a significant delay for BH mergers after the first encounter of a BH pair, with a typical elapse time of about 200 Myrs. There are in total 4.5 × 105 BH mergers in Astrid at z > 3, ∼ 103 of which have X-ray detectable EM counterparts: a bright kpc scale dual AGN with LX > 1043 erg s−1. BHs with MBH ∼ 107−8 M experience the most frequent mergers. Galaxies that host BH mergers are unbiased tracers of the overall MBH − M∗ relation. Massive (> 1011 M ) galaxies have a high occupation number (& 10) of BHs, and hence host the majority of BH mergers.