Self-regulated black hole accretion, the M-sigma relation, and the growth of bulges in galaxies

Abstract

We argue that the velocity dispersions and masses of galactic bulges and spheroids are byproducts of the feedback that regulates rapid black hole growth in protogalaxies. We suggest that the feedback energy liberated by accretion must pass through the accreting material, in an energy-conserving flux close-in and a momentum-conserving flux further out. If the inflowing gas dominates the gravitational potential outside the Bondi radius, feedback from Eddington-limited accretion drives the density profile of the gas to that of a singular isothermal sphere. We find that the velocity dispersion associated with the isothermal potential, sigma, increases with time as the black hole mass M grows, in such a way that M is proportional to sigma^4. The coefficient of this proportionality depends on the radius at which the flow switches from energy conserving to momentum conserving, and gives the observed M-sigma relation if the transition occurs at ~100 Schwarzschild radii. We associate this transition with radiative cooling and show that bremsstrahlung, strongly boosted by inverse Compton scattering in a two-temperature (T_p >> T_e) plasma, leads to a transition at the desired radius. According to this picture, bulge masses M_b are insensitive to the virial masses of their dark matter haloes, but correlate linearly with black hole mass. Our analytic model also explains the M_b-sigma (Faber-Jackson) relation as a relic of black hole accretion. The model naturally explains why the M-sigma relation has less scatter than either the M-M_b (Magorrian) or the Faber-Jackson relation. It suggests that the M-sigma relation could extend down to very low velocity dispersions, and predicts that the relation should not evolve with redshift.

arXiv comment6 pages, no figures, submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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