Quiescence Correlates Strongly with Directly Measured Black Hole Mass in Central Galaxies

Quiescence Correlates Strongly with Directly Measured Black Hole Mass in Central Galaxies. Terrazas, B. A., Bell, E. F., Henriques, B. M. B., White, S. D. M., Cattaneo, A., & Woo, J. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 830:L12, October, 2016.

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Roughly half of all stars reside in galaxies without significant ongoing star formation. However, galaxy formation models indicate that it is energetically challenging to suppress the cooling of gas and the formation of stars in galaxies that lie at the centers of their dark matter halos. In this Letter, we show that the dependence of quiescence on black hole and stellar mass is a powerful discriminant between differing models for the mechanisms that suppress star formation. Using observations of 91 star-forming and quiescent central galaxies with directly measured black hole masses, we find that quiescent galaxies host more massive black holes than star-forming galaxies with similar stellar masses. This observational result is in qualitative agreement with models that assume that effective, more-or-less continuous active galactic nucleus feedback suppresses star formation, strongly suggesting the importance of the black hole in producing quiescence in central galaxies.

@article{terrazas_quiescence_2016,
	title = {Quiescence {Correlates} {Strongly} with {Directly} {Measured} {Black} {Hole} {Mass} in {Central} {Galaxies}},
	volume = {830},
	issn = {0004-637X},
	url = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016ApJ...830L..12T},
	doi = {10.3847/2041-8205/830/1/L12},
	abstract = {Roughly half of all stars reside in galaxies without significant ongoing 
star formation. However, galaxy formation models indicate that it is
energetically challenging to suppress the cooling of gas and the
formation of stars in galaxies that lie at the centers of their dark
matter halos. In this Letter, we show that the dependence of quiescence
on black hole and stellar mass is a powerful discriminant between
differing models for the mechanisms that suppress star formation. Using
observations of 91 star-forming and quiescent central galaxies with
directly measured black hole masses, we find that quiescent galaxies
host more massive black holes than star-forming galaxies with similar
stellar masses. This observational result is in qualitative agreement
with models that assume that effective, more-or-less continuous active
galactic nucleus feedback suppresses star formation, strongly suggesting
the importance of the black hole in producing quiescence in central
galaxies.},
	urldate = {2020-03-26},
	journal = {The Astrophysical Journal Letters},
	author = {Terrazas, Bryan A. and Bell, Eric F. and Henriques, Bruno M. B. and White, Simon D. M. and Cattaneo, Andrea and Woo, Joanna},
	month = oct,
	year = {2016},
	keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: bulges, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: general, galaxies: star formation},
	pages = {L12},
}

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