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Growing the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes:Beyond the Major Merger Paradigm Kelly Holley! Bockelmann Vanderbilt University k"[email protected]"edu NGC 6240 0402+379 Galaxy Awesome Monday, April 16, 2012

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  • Growing the Lightest Supermassive Black Holes:Beyond the Major Merger Paradigm

    Kelly Holley!BockelmannVanderbilt University

    k"[email protected]"edu

    NGC 6240 0402+379 Galaxy Awesome

    Monday, April 16, 2012

    mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]

  • e.g. Micic, HB, Sigurdsson + Abel 2007

    First task: Growing the lightest supermassive black holes to get event rates for LISA

    The broad approach: zoom-in collisionless n-

    body simulations to generate merger trees, and incorporate the

    gas physics analytically

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Recipe for growing the lightest supermassive black holes

    Our black holes grow by a combination of direct mergers and galaxy merger-driven gas accretion:

    After halos merge, we merge the BHs after a dynamical friction timescale -- assume the final parsec is solved.

    We add gravitational wave recoil, too -- 106 realizations of possible spins and orientations

    We use PopIII stellar remnants as our black hole seeds.

    Micic, HB, Sigurdsson 2009HB, Micic, Sigurdsson+ Rubbo 2010

    see Hirschmann et al; Tanaka et al model

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • We found # classes of black holes:

    Massive central

    Slowly sinking

    Ejected

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Is SgrA* an oddball?

    If kicks are large:

    20% of halos form proper SMBH

    small kicks:

    SgrA* is common

    Massive centralMonday, April 16, 2012

  • Light SMBHs don’t just assemble from equal mass (or even nearly equal mass ) mergers

    Not EMRI. Not SMBH

    merger.

    HB et al. 2010

    Massive centralMonday, April 16, 2012

  • Light SMBHs don’t assemble from equal mass (or even nearly equal mass ) mergers

    ULIs

    Massive central

    ultra light inspiral

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  • halo mass M๏

    blac

    k ho

    le m

    ass

    M๏

    108

    106

    104

    102

    107 108 109 1010 1011

    Dwarf galaxies may also have central black holessee also Micic, HB 2007, Volonteri + Priya 2009, Peng 2010,

    your name here?

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  • Proof in the Pudding? Heinze $!%&Reines et al. 2011

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Rogue Black Holes sit in the outer halo

    R/Rvir0 1

    see also Micic, HB 2007, Bellovary et al. 2011, your name here?

    Slowly sinkingMonday, April 16, 2012

  • r (kpc)0 300

    L (L๏)

    104

    If they accrete halo gas' some may be uLXs

    Slowly sinkingMonday, April 16, 2012

  • redshift

    The ejected population

    O(103) per 1000 Mpc3 will wander in the

    intergalactic medium

    EjectedMonday, April 16, 2012

  • Milky Way is peppered by IMBHs+shredded halos, and one of these may have transformed the galactic center.

    Lang et al. 2012

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  • Very minor IMBH-embedded satellite accretion at starting at z~8 and ending ~10 Myr ago could have

    excited new star formation

    ...and ejected the old stars

    ...and fed the SMBH

    to make the Fermi Bubble

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Very minor IMBH-embedded satellite accretion at starting at z~8 and ending ~10 Myr ago could have

    excited new star formation

    ...and ejected the old stars

    ...and fed the SMBH

    to make the Fermi Bubble

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Main takeaway so far: MW-like SMBHs in MW-like galaxies may grow more from

    minor mergers than from major mergers.

    Next up: Flyby encounters

    with a prescription built on the merger paradigm....

    kpc

    kpc

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • inspiration: BH mass a product of environment?

    a few isolated halos had extremely

    underweight bhs compared to halos of the same mass elsewhere

    Let’s dig deeper into this environment issue -- Simulate larger volumes and zoom into many regions with better resolution

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • A small taste of the assembly of a 1012 M๏ halo

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • A small taste of the assembly of a 1012 M๏ halo

    merger

    merger

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  • A small taste of the assembly of a 1012 M๏ halo

    flyby

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  • Flyby encounters can happen just as often as mergers -- currently ignored in SMBH

    growth scenarios

    Sinha + HB 2012, in press

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Why this matters: galaxy flybys can strongly perturb the galaxy

    Steinmetz+Navarro 2001

    Vesperini+Weinberg 2001

    ...which can funnel gas to the center, may feed the SMBH...Monday, April 16, 2012

  • Nflyby=2Nmerger=4Mbh~105M๏

    Nflyby=17Nmerger=44Mbh~107M๏

    Quiet halos have underweight SMBHs

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  • Nflyby=2Nmerger=4Mbh~105M๏

    Nflyby=17Nmerger=44Mbh~107M๏

    To come: a measure of the SMBH growth

    from flybys

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • And now, a cautionary note about the first black hole seeds.

    Semi-analytic method...linear evolution of overdensities make the

    halo mass function we see today

    Amazingly, it works!

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  • Monday, April 16, 2012

  • 2nd order overdensity

    2nd order Lagrangian perturbation approximation

    linear overdensity

    Buchert 94, Scoccimaro 98, Crocce 06, Jenkins 09

    But, adding a 2nd order displacement is more accurate.

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  • The fancy 2LPT method allows structure to collapse earlier -- most massive halos more common

    (...uh, by 5% at z=0)

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • However, this makes a big difference in the bh seeding epoch!

    10 Mpc box 5123 particles from z=300 to 6

    HB, Sinha, Wise in prep

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • However, this makes a bigger difference in the first stars era!

    10−28 10−27 10−26

    Density [g cm−3]

    102 103 104

    Temperature [K]

    10−4 10−3 10−2 10−1 100

    Electron Fraction

    ZAZA

    2LPT2LPT

    0.25 Mpc/h

    Monday, April 16, 2012

  • • The lightest supermassive black holes assemble from minor black hole mergers.

    • Flyby encounters are common for Milky Way mass halos, especially at z

  • Thanks!

    Collaborators on these projects:

    Miroslav Micic Manodeep Sinha

    Steinn Sigurdsson John Wise

    Monday, April 16, 2012