Episodic super-Eddington accretion as a clue to Overmassive Black Holes in the early Universe
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| author | Trinca, Alessandro Valiante, Rosa Schneider, Raffaella Juodžbalis, Ignas Maiolino, Roberto Graziani, Luca Lupi, Alessandro Natarajan, Priyamvada Volonteri, Marta Zana, Tommaso |
| author_facet | Trinca, Alessandro Valiante, Rosa Schneider, Raffaella Juodžbalis, Ignas Maiolino, Roberto Graziani, Luca Lupi, Alessandro Natarajan, Priyamvada Volonteri, Marta Zana, Tommaso |
| contents | Early JWST observations are providing growing evidence for a ubiquitous population of accreting supermassive black holes (BHs) at high redshift, many of which appear overmassive compared to the empirically-derived local scaling relation between black hole mass and host galaxy stellar mass. In this study, we leverage predictions from the semi-analytical Cosmic Archaeology Tool (CAT) to reconstruct the evolutionary pathways for this overmassive BH population, investigating how they assemble over cosmic time and interact with their host galaxies. We find that the large $M_{\rm BH}-M_{\rm star}$ ratios can be explained if light and heavy BH seeds grow by short, repeated episodes of super-Eddington accretion, triggered by major galaxy mergers. On average, we find that BH-galaxy co-evolution starts in earnest only at $z < 8$, when $\simeq 30\%$ of the final galaxy stellar mass has formed outside the massive black hole host. Our model suggests that super-Eddington bursts of accretion last between $0.5-3$ Myr, resulting in a duty cycle of $1-4 \%$ for the target BH sample. The boost in luminosity of BHs undergoing super-Eddington accretion helps explaining the luminosity function of Active Galactic Nuclei observed by JWST. At the same time, a large population of these overmassive BHs are predicted to be inactive, with Eddington ratio $λ_{\rm Edd} < 0.05$, in agreement with recent observations. |
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| spellingShingle | Episodic super-Eddington accretion as a clue to Overmassive Black Holes in the early Universe Trinca, Alessandro Valiante, Rosa Schneider, Raffaella Juodžbalis, Ignas Maiolino, Roberto Graziani, Luca Lupi, Alessandro Natarajan, Priyamvada Volonteri, Marta Zana, Tommaso Astrophysics of Galaxies Early JWST observations are providing growing evidence for a ubiquitous population of accreting supermassive black holes (BHs) at high redshift, many of which appear overmassive compared to the empirically-derived local scaling relation between black hole mass and host galaxy stellar mass. In this study, we leverage predictions from the semi-analytical Cosmic Archaeology Tool (CAT) to reconstruct the evolutionary pathways for this overmassive BH population, investigating how they assemble over cosmic time and interact with their host galaxies. We find that the large $M_{\rm BH}-M_{\rm star}$ ratios can be explained if light and heavy BH seeds grow by short, repeated episodes of super-Eddington accretion, triggered by major galaxy mergers. On average, we find that BH-galaxy co-evolution starts in earnest only at $z < 8$, when $\simeq 30\%$ of the final galaxy stellar mass has formed outside the massive black hole host. Our model suggests that super-Eddington bursts of accretion last between $0.5-3$ Myr, resulting in a duty cycle of $1-4 \%$ for the target BH sample. The boost in luminosity of BHs undergoing super-Eddington accretion helps explaining the luminosity function of Active Galactic Nuclei observed by JWST. At the same time, a large population of these overmassive BHs are predicted to be inactive, with Eddington ratio $λ_{\rm Edd} < 0.05$, in agreement with recent observations. |
| title | Episodic super-Eddington accretion as a clue to Overmassive Black Holes in the early Universe |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14248 |