Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

被引:346
|
作者
Greene, Jenny E. [1 ]
Strader, Jay [2 ]
Ho, Luis C. [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Dept Astrophys Sci, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[2] Michigan State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Ctr Data Intens & Time Domain Astron, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA
[3] Peking Univ, Kavli Inst Astron & Astrophys, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
[4] Peking Univ, Sch Phys, Dept Astron, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 国家重点研发计划;
关键词
active galactic nuclei; globular clusters; gravitational waves; tidal disruption; ultraluminous X-ray sources; ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; HUBBLE-SPACE-TELESCOPE; TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENT; DENSE STAR-CLUSTERS; X-RAY-PROPERTIES; PAIR-INSTABILITY SUPERNOVAE; DWARF SEYFERT-1 GALAXY; GLOBULAR-CLUSTERS; STELLAR-MASS; 1ST STARS;
D O I
10.1146/annurev-astro-032620-021835
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M-BH approximate to 10-10(5) M-circle dot. We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion signatures. We find the following conclusions: Dynamical and accretion signatures alike point to a high fraction of 10(9)-10(10) M-circle dot galaxies hosting black holes with M-BH similar to 10(5) M-circle dot. In contrast, there are no solid detections of black holes in globular clusters. There are few observational constraints on black holes in any environment with M-BH approximate to 100-10(4) M-circle dot. Considering low-mass galaxies with dynamical black hole masses and constraining limits, we find that the M-BH-sigma* relation continues unbroken toMBH similar to 10(5) M-circle dot, albeit with large scatter. We believe the scatter is at least partially driven by a broad range in black hole masses, because the occupation fraction appears to be relatively high in these galaxies. We fold the observed scaling relations with our empirical limits on occupation fraction and the galaxy mass function to put observational bounds on the black hole mass function in galaxy nuclei. We are pessimistic that local demographic observations of galaxy nuclei alone could constrain seeding mechanisms, although either highredshift luminosity functions or robust measurements of off-nuclear black holes could begin to discriminate models.
引用
收藏
页码:257 / 312
页数:56
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [1] Intermediate-mass black holes
    Miller, MC
    Colbert, EJM
    [J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D, 2004, 13 (01): : 1 - 64
  • [2] Looking for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
    Frampton, Paul H.
    [J]. NUCLEAR PHYSICS B-PROCEEDINGS SUPPLEMENTS, 2010, 200-02 : 176 - 178
  • [3] Intermediate-mass black holes as LISA sources
    Miller, M. Coleman
    [J]. CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, 2009, 26 (09)
  • [4] Astronomy - The hunt for intermediate-mass black holes
    Fabbiano, G
    [J]. SCIENCE, 2005, 307 (5709) : 533 - 534
  • [5] Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters
    Kiselev, A. A.
    Gnedin, Yu. N.
    Shakht, N. A.
    Grosheva, E. A.
    [J]. ASTROPHYSICAL BULLETIN, 2011, 66 (04) : 436 - 441
  • [6] Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
    Casares, J.
    Jonker, P. G.
    [J]. SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS, 2014, 183 (1-4) : 223 - 252
  • [7] Observational evidence for intermediate-mass black holes
    Mezcua, Mar
    [J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D, 2017, 26 (11):
  • [8] Mechanism for the suppression of intermediate-mass black holes
    V. I. Dokuchaev
    Yu. N. Eroshenko
    S. G. Rubin
    D. A. Samarchenko
    [J]. Astronomy Letters, 2010, 36 : 773 - 779
  • [9] Mass Measurements of Stellar and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
    J. Casares
    P. G. Jonker
    [J]. Space Science Reviews, 2014, 183 : 223 - 252
  • [10] Mechanism for the suppression of intermediate-mass black holes
    Dokuchaev, V. I.
    Eroshenko, Yu. N.
    Rubin, S. G.
    Samarchenko, D. A.
    [J]. ASTRONOMY LETTERS-A JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE ASTROPHYSICS, 2010, 36 (11): : 773 - 779