Outflows in the Gaseous Discs of Active Galaxies and their impact on Black Hole Scaling Relations

Abstract

To tackle the still unsolved and fundamental problem of the role of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in shaping galaxies, in this work we implement a new physical treatment of AGN-driven winds into our semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. To each galaxy in our model, we associate solutions for the outflow expansion and the mass outflow rates in different directions, depending on the AGN luminosity, on the circular velocity of the host halo, and on gas content of the considered galaxy. To each galaxy we also assign an effective radius derived from energy conservation during merger events, and a stellar velocity dispersion self-consistently computed via Jeans modelling. We derive all the main scaling relations between Black hole (BH) mass and total/bulge stellar mass, velocity dispersion, host halo dark matter mass, and star formation efficiency. We find that our improved AGN feedback mostly controls the dispersion around the relations but plays a subdominant role in shaping slopes and/or normalizations of the scaling relations. Including possible limited-resolution selection biases in the model provides better agreement with the available data. The model does not point to any more fundamental galactic property linked to BH mass, with velocity dispersion playing a similar role with respect to stellar mass, in tension with present data. In line with other independent studies carried out on comprehensive semi-analytic and hydrodynamic galaxy-BH evolution models, our current results signal either an inadequacy of present cosmological models of galaxy formation in fully reproducing the local scaling relations, in terms of both shape and residuals, and/or point to an incompleteness issue affecting the local sample of dynamically-measured BHs.

arXiv comment21 pages, accepted for publications in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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