Black hole demography: from scaling relations to models

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/24/244001zbMATH Open1284.83012arXiv1307.3289OpenAlexW3099130941MaRDI QIDQ5746397FDOQ5746397

Authors: Francesco Shankar 

Publication date: 18 February 2014

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

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. 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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3289

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zbMATH Keywords

supermassive black holescaling relationblack hole (BH)BH mass functionblack hole demography

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Black holes (83C57) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02)

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• The mass function of nearby black hole candidates

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