Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies: Black Hole Scaling Relations Are Not Biased by Selection Effects

Abstract

The oral version of this paper summarized Kormendy & Ho 2013, ARA&A, 51, 511. However, earlier speakers at this Symposium worried that selection effects bias the derivation of black hole scaling relations. I therefore added -- and this proceedings paper emphasizes -- a discussion of why we can be confident that selection effects do not bias the observed correlations between BH mass M_BH and the luminosity, stellar mass, and velocity dispersion of host ellipticals and classical bulges. These are the only galaxy components that show tight BH-host correlations. The scatter plots of M_BH with host properties for pseudobulges and disks are upper envelopes of scatter that does extend to lower BH masses. BH correlations are most consistent with a picture in which BHs coevolve only with classical bulges and ellipticals. Four physical regimes of coevolution (or not) are suggested by Kormendy & Ho 2013 and are summarized here.

arXiv comment12 pages, 7 figures, in IAU Symposium 353, Galactic Dynamics in the Era of Large Surveys, ed. M. Valluri & J. A. Sellwood, Cambridge Univ. Press, in press; submitted August 20, 2019

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