How to form bulges/ellipticals in dark halos as fast as central black holes?
arXiv:0709.4496 · doi:10.1017/S174392130801716X
Abstract
Gravity is nearly a universal constant in the cusp of an NFW galaxy halo. Inside this external field an isothermal gas sphere will collapse and trigger a starburst if above a critical central pressure. Thus formed spheroidal stellar systems have Sersic-profile and satisfy the Faber-Jackson relation. The process is consistent with observed starbursts. We also recover the M_BH vs. velocity dispersion relation, if the gas collapse is regulated or resisted by the feedback from radiation from the central BH.
Proceedings on "Galaxy Bulges", IAU Symposium 245 in July 2007, Oxford