Accretion onto Seed Black Holes in the First Galaxies

Abstract

The validity of the hypothesis that the massive black holes in high redshift quasars grew from stellar-sized "seeds" is contingent on a seed's ability to double its mass every few ten million years. This requires that the seed accrete at approximately the Eddington-limited rate. In the specific case of radiatively efficient quasiradial accretion in a metal-poor protogalactic medium, for which the Bondi accretion rate is often prescribed in cosmological simulations of massive black hole formation, we examine the effects of the radiation emitted near the black hole's event horizon on the structure of the surrounding gas flow. We find that the radiation pressure from photoionization significantly reduces the steady-state accretion rate and renders the quasiradial accretion flow unsteady and inefficient. The time-averaged accretion rates are a small fraction of the Eddington-limited accretion rate for Thomson scattering. The pressure of Ly-alpha photons trapped near the HII region surrounding the black hole may further attenuate the inflow. These results suggest that an alternative to quasiradial, radiatively efficient Bondi-like accretion should be sought to explain the rapid growth of quasar-progenitor seed black holes.

replaced with significantly revised and expanded version; 14 pages, 2 figures

References in corpus (35)

• X-ray Properties of Black-Hole Binaries
• Formation of Supermassive Black Holes by Direct Collapse in Pregalactic Halos
• The Statistics of Supersonic Isothermal Turbulence
• Direct cosmological simulations of the growth of black holes and galaxies
• Effect of Primordial Black Holes on the Cosmic Microwave Background and Cosmological Parameter Estimates
• Protostar Formation in the Early Universe
• Radiative feedback from massive black holes in elliptical galaxies. AGN flaring and central starburst fueled by recycled gas
• Formation of z ~ 6 quasars from hierarchical galaxy mergers
• Simulating the formation of molecular clouds. II. Rapid formation from turbulent initial conditions
• Resolving the Formation of Protogalaxies. III. Feedback from the First Stars
• Can Supermassive Black Holes Form in Metal-Enriched High-Redshift Protogalaxies ?
• The Formation of the First Stars II. Radiative Feedback Processes and Implications for the Initial Mass Function
• The First Galaxies: Assembly, Cooling and the Onset of Turbulence
• Direct calculation of the radiative efficiency of an accretion disk around a black hole
• Resolving the Formation of Protogalaxies. II. Central Gravitational Collapse
• Early Cosmological HII/HeIII Regions and Their Impact on Second-Generation Star Formation
• Star Formation Around Super-Massive Black Holes
• The aftermath of the first stars: massive black holes
• Quasistars: Accreting black holes inside massive envelopes
• Suppression of H_2 Cooling in the Ultraviolet Background
• Resolving the Formation of Protogalaxies. I. Virialization
• Accretion onto Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dense Protogalactic Clouds
• Local radiative feedback in the formation of the first protogalaxies
• How rapidly do supermassive black hole "seeds" grow at early times?
• Bondi accretion in the early universe
• X-ray Properties of Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Active Galaxies
• Where is the Radiation Edge in Magnetized Black Hole Accretion discs?
• Time-evolution of ionization and heating around first stars and miniquasars
• Lyman Alpha Driven Outflows Around Star Forming Galaxies
• On the Detection of High Redshift Black Holes with ALMA through CO and H2 Emission
• Heating of the Intergalactic Medium by Primordial Miniquasars
• The Diffuse Nature of Stromgren Spheres
• Radiation from early black holes - I: effects on the neutral inter-galactic medium
• Feedback from first radiation sources: H- photodissociation
• Radiative feedback from ionized gas

Cited by in corpus (143)

• The Assembly of the First Massive Black Holes
• Dwarf Galaxies with Optical Signatures of Active Massive Black Holes
• The First Galaxies
• Supermassive Black Hole Formation by Direct Collapse: Keeping Protogalactic Gas H_2--Free in Dark Matter Halos with Virial Temperatures T_vir >~ 10^4 K
• Accretion onto the First Stellar Mass Black Holes
• Super-Critical Growth of Massive Black Holes from Stellar-Mass Seeds
• Building up the Population III initial mass function from cosmological initial conditions
• Ubiquitous seeding of supermassive black holes by direct collapse
• Hyper-Eddington accretion flows onto massive black holes
• Stellar black holes at the dawn of the universe
• Modeling the Radio Background from the First Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn: Implications for the 21 cm Absorption Amplitude
• Rapid growth of seed black holes in the early universe by supra-exponential accretion
• Low-mass black holes as the remnants of primordial black hole formation
• Constraining the Statistics of Population III Binaries
• The critical radiation intensity for direct collapse black hole formation: dependence on the radiation spectral shape
• Accretion onto Intermediate Mass Black Holes Regulated by Radiative Feedback I. Parametric Study for Spherically Symmetric Accretion
• Superbubble dynamics in globular cluster infancy II. Consequences for secondary star formation in the context of self-enrichment via fast rotating massive stars
• Massive black hole factories: Supermassive and quasi-star formation in primordial halos
• Growing massive black holes through super-critical accretion of stellar-mass seeds
• The First Galaxies: Assembly with Black Hole Feedback
• Supermassive Seeds for Supermassive Black Holes
• The physics of Lyman-alpha escape from high-redshift galaxies
• Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. II. Growth Rate and Duty Cycle
• Direct collapse black hole formation from synchronized pairs of atomic cooling halos
• Radiative Feedback from high mass X-ray binaries on the formation of the first galaxies and early reionization
• Confined Population III Enrichment and the Prospects for Prompt Second-Generation Star Formation
• X-ray and Ultraviolet Properties of AGN in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
• Accretion onto black holes formed by direct collapse
• The Growth Efficiency of High-Redshift Black Holes
• The Formation of Supermassive Black Holes from Low-Mass Pop III Seeds
• Finding the First Cosmic Explosions I: Pair-Instability Supernovae
• The Growth of the Stellar Seeds of Supermassive Black Holes
• Direct formation of supermassive black holes in metal-enriched gas at the heart of high-redshift galaxy mergers
• Cosmological Simulations of Early Blackhole Formation: Halo Mergers, Tidal Disruption, and the Conditions for Direct Collapse
• The First Galaxies: Signatures of the Initial Starburst
• On the observability of individual Population III stars and their stellar-mass black hole accretion disks through cluster caustic transits
• Supermassive Star Formation via Super Competitive Accretion in Slightly Metal-enriched Clouds
• The formation of massive black holes in z~30 dark matter haloes with large baryonic streaming velocities
• Black Holes in the Early Universe
• Black hole formation in primordial galaxies: chemical and radiative conditions
• Relative Role of Stars and Quasars in Cosmic Reionization
• The Formation of the First Massive Black Holes
• Recovery from population III supernova explosions and the onset of second generation star formation
• On the formation of the first quasars
• Radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the formation of direct-collapse supermassive stellar systems
• Accretion onto Black Holes from Large Scales Regulated by Radiative Feedback. III. Enhanced Luminosity of Intermediate Mass Black Holes Moving at Supersonic Speeds
• Looking at cosmic near-infrared background radiation anisotropies
• Accretion-modified Stars in Accretion Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei: Gravitational Wave Bursts and Electromagnetic Counterparts from Merging Stellar Black Hole Binaries
• Pair Instability Supernovae of Very Massive Population III Stars
• X-ray emission from high-redshift miniquasars: self-regulating the population of massive black holes through global warming
• Outflow Bubbles from Compact Binary Mergers Embedded in Active Galactic Nuclei: Cavity Formation and the Impact on Electromagnetic Counterparts
• How the super-Eddington regime regulates black hole growth in high-redshift galaxies
• Accretion-modified Stars in Accretion Disks of Active Galactic Nuclei: Slowly Transient Appearance
• A No-Go Theorem for Direct Collapse Black Holes Without a Strong Ultraviolet Background
• A parallax distance to 3C 273 through spectroastrometry and reverberation mapping
• Supermassive Black Holes in the Early Universe
• The Early Growth of the First Black Holes
• Radiation Hydrodynamical Simulations of the First Quasars
• Finding the First Cosmic Explosions II: Core-Collapse Supernovae
• Multiphase, non-spherical gas accretion onto a black hole
• How an improved implementation of H2 self-shielding influences the formation of massive stars and black holes
• Finding the First Cosmic Explosions. III. Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae
• Supermassive Population III Supernovae and the Birth of the First Quasars
• The Supernova that Destroyed a Protogalaxy: Prompt Chemical Enrichment and Supermassive Black Hole Growth
• The first galaxies: simulating their feedback-regulated assembly
• Lyman-alpha radiation hydrodynamics of galactic winds before cosmic reionization
• Simulating the growth of Intermediate Mass Black Holes
• A New Statistical Model for Population III Supernova Rates: Discriminating Between $\Lambda$CDM and WDM Cosmologies
• Can stellar-mass black hole growth disrupt disks of active galactic nuclei? The role of mechanical feedback
• Trapping of HII regions in Population III star formation
• Rapid growth of seed black holes during early bulge formation
• Photon Trapping Enables Super-Eddington Growth of Black-Hole Seeds in Galaxies at High Redshift
• Impact of Primordial Ultracompact Minihaloes on the Intergalactic Medium and First Structure Formation
• Exploring the nature of the Lyman-$\alpha$ emitter CR7
• The Formation of Supermassive Black Holes from Population III.1 Seeds. I. Cosmic Formation Histories and Clustering Properties
• The sustainable growth of the first black holes
• Rapid Black Hole Growth under Anisotropic Radiation Feedback
• The Biggest Explosions in the Universe
• Hyper-Eddington accretion flows onto black holes accompanied by powerful outflows
• Rapid growth of black holes accompanied with hot or warm outflows exposed to anisotropic super-Eddington radiation
• Early growth of typical high redshift black holes seeded by direct collapse
• Intermediate-mass black holes from Population III remnants in the first galactic nuclei
• HYPerluminous quasars at the Epoch of ReionizatION (HYPERION). A new regime for the X-ray nuclear properties of the first quasars
• Low density, radiatively inefficient rotating-accretion flow onto a black hole
• Direct Collapse to Supermassive Black Hole Seeds with Radiative Transfer: Isolated Halos
• Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation at High Redshifts: Long-Term Evolution of the Direct Collapse
• Illuminating the Primeval Universe with Type IIn Supernovae
• The Biggest Explosions in the Universe. II
• Supermassive black hole ancestors
• The role of stellar relaxation in the formation and evolution of the first massive black holes
• GW150914-like Black Holes as Galactic High-Energy Sources
• Long-term evolution of supercritical black hole accretion with outflows: a subgrid feedback model for cosmological simulations
• The effect of baryonic streaming motions on the formation of the first supermassive black holes
• Direct Collapse to Supermassive Black Hole Seeds with Radiation Transfer: Cosmological Halos
• The first supermassive black holes
• Baryon history and cosmic star formation in non-Gaussian cosmological models: numerical simulations
• Can supermassive black hole seeds form in galaxy mergers?
• Low-energy Population III supernovae and the origin of extremely metal-poor stars
• Radiative effects during the assembly of direct collapse black holes
• Population III Hypernovae
• Cosmological DCBH formation sites hostile for their growth
• Simulating Supersonic Turbulence in Magnetized Molecular Clouds
• Super-Eddington mass growth of intermediate-mass black holes embedded in dusty circumnuclear disks
• Super-Eddington growth of black holes in the early Universe: effects of disk radiation spectra
• Stellar Mass Black Holes in Young Galaxies
• Structure and Instability of the Ionization Fronts around Moving Black Holes
• Driving the Growth of the Earliest Supermassive Black Holes with Major Mergers of Host Galaxies
• Gravitational Wave Signals from the First Massive Black Hole Seeds
• Bright vigorous winds as signposts of supermassive black hole birth
• Searching for Intermediate Mass Black Holes in galaxies with Low Luminosity AGN: A multiple-method approach
• The seeds of supermassive black holes and the role of local radiation and metal spreading
• Transition of BH feeding from the quiescent regime into star-forming cold disk regime
• Jet-powered supernovae of $\sim 10^5{M}_{\odot }$ population III stars are observable by $Euclid$, $WFIRST$, $WISH$, and $JWST$
• The impact of ionizing radiation on the formation of a supermassive star in the early Universe
• Discrete diffusion Lyman-alpha radiative transfer
• Effects of turbulence and rotation on protostar formation as a precursor to seed black holes
• The imprint of the cosmic supermassive black hole growth history on the 21 cm background radiation
• Inception of a first quasar at cosmic dawn
• Constraining the epoch of reionization from the observed properties of the high-z Universe
• Maximally Rotating Supermassive Stars at the Onset of Collapse: The Perturbative Effects of Gas Pressure, Magnetic Fields, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
• Constraints from dwarf galaxies on black hole seeding and growth models with current and future surveys
• Lyman-$\alpha$ feedback prevails at Cosmic Dawn: Implications for the first galaxies, stars, and star clusters
• Supermassive black hole formation via collisions in black hole clusters
• Self-regulation of black hole accretion via jets in early protogalaxies
• Light or heavy supermassive black hole seeds: the role of internal rotation in the fate of supermassive stars
• Opacity limit for supermassive protostars
• Pulsation-driven mass loss from massive stars behind stellar mergers in metal-poor dense clusters
• The growth of supermassive black holes fed by accretion disks
• Do Stellar Winds Prevent the Formation of Supermassive Stars by Accretion?
• Spectral Uniformity of Little Red Dots: A Natural Outcome of Coevolving Seed Black Holes and Nascent Starbursts
• Direct Collapse to Supermassive Black Hole Seeds: Comparing the AMR and SPH Approaches
• Successive Merger of Multiple Massive Black Holes in a Primordial Galaxy
• Early formation of supermassive black holes from the collapse of strongly self-interacting dark matter
• Formation of the First Galaxies: Theory and Simulations
• Merger Criteria of Multiple Massive Black Holes and the Impact on the Host Galaxy
• Coalescence Rate of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Derived from Cosmological Simulations: Detection Rates for LISA and ET
• Maximally Rotating Supermassive Stars at the Onset of Collapse: Effects of Gas Pressure
• Growth and Feedback from the First Black Holes
• Direct Collapse to Precursors of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds:Radiation-feedback-generated Outflows
• Super-Eddington accretion in high-redshift quasar hosts: Black-hole driven outflows, galaxy quenching, and the nature of little red dots
• Super-Eddington Growth Ceiling: Analytic Constraints on the Rapid Growth of Light-Seed Black Holes in Massive Clumps
• Star Formation for Predictive Primordial Galaxy Formation
• Stellar black holes: cosmic history and feedback at the dawn of the universe