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How do massive black holes get their gas?

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Hopkins, Philip F., Quataert, Eliot·2010·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17064.x
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We use multi-scale SPH simulations to follow the inflow of gas from galactic scales to <0.1pc, where the gas begins to resemble a traditional Keplerian accretion disk. The key ingredients are gas, stars, black holes (BHs), self-gravity, star formation, and stellar feedback. We use ~100 simulations to survey a large parameter space of galaxy properties and subgrid models for the ISM physics. We generate initial conditions for our simulations of galactic nuclei (~10pc, our simulations resemble the 'bars within bars' model, but the gas exhibits diverse morphologies, including spirals, rings, clumps, and bars; their duty cycle is modest, complicating attempts to correlate BH accretion with nuclear morphology. At ~1-10pc, the gravitational potential becomes dominated by the BH and bar-like modes are no longer present. However, the gas becomes unstable to a standing, eccentric disk or a single-armed spiral mode (m=1), driving the gas to sub-pc scales. Proper treatment of this mode requires including star formation and the self-gravity of both the stars and gas. We predict correlations between BHAR and SFR at different galactic nuclei: nuclear SF is more tightly coupled to AGN activity, but correlations exist at all scales.

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Authors
Hopkins, P. F., & Quataert, E.
Venue
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2010-07-21
Volume
407
Issue
3
Pages
1529-1564
ISSN
0035-8711 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17064.x
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148
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Language
en
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Hopkins, P. F., & Quataert, E. (2010). How do massive black holes get their gas? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17064.x

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