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QUIESCENCE CORRELATES STRONGLY WITH DIRECTLY MEASURED BLACK HOLE MASS IN CENTRAL GALAXIES
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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.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Terrazas, B. A., Bell, E. F., Henriques, B. M. B., White, S. D. M., Cattaneo, A., & Woo, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (DE)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 2016-10-07
- Volume
- 830
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- L12
- ISSN
- 2041-8205 (ISSN-L)
- 2041-8213
- OpenAlex
- W2523991115
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 4.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1256260)
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- California Institute of Technology
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Keywords
- quiescent galaxies, black hole mass, stellar mass, central galaxies, star formation suppression, AGN feedback, galaxy evolution, dark matter halos
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