The host galaxies of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: The black hole-galaxy connection

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作者
O'Dowd, M
Urry, CM
Scarpa, R
机构
[1] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[2] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[3] Yale Ctr Astron & Astrophys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[4] European So Observ, Santiago 19, Chile
[5] Univ Melbourne, Sch Phys, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia
来源
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2002年 / 580卷 / 01期
关键词
BL Lacertae objects : general; black hole physics; galaxies : active; galaxies : elliptical and lenticular; cD; galaxies : kinematics and dynamics; quasars : general;
D O I
10.1086/343126
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have studied the host galaxies of a sample of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) spanning more than 4 decades in the energy output of the nucleus. The core sample includes 40 low-power sources (BL Lac objects) and 22 high-power sources (radio-loud quasars) spanning the redshift range 0.15less than or similar tozless than or similar to0.5, all imaged with the high spatial resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope. All of the sources are found to lie in luminous elliptical galaxies, which follow the Kormendy relation for normal ellipticals. A very shallow trend is detected between nuclear brightness ( corrected for beaming) and host galaxy luminosity. Black hole masses are estimated for the entire sample, using both the bulge luminosity-black hole mass and the velocity dispersion black hole mass relations for local galaxies. The latter involves a new method using the host galaxy morphological parameters mu(e) and mu(e) to infer the velocity dispersion sigma via the fundamental plane correlation. Both methods indicate that the entire sample of radio-loud AGNs are powered by very massive central black holes, with M(BH)similar to10(8)-10(10) M-circle dot. Eddington ratios range from L/L(Edd)similar to2x10(-4) to similar to1, with the high-power sources having higher Eddington ratios than the low-power sources. Overall, radio-loud AGNs appear to span a very large range in accretion efficiency, which is all but independent of the mass of the host galaxy.
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