Joint Cosmological Formation of QSOs and Bulge-dominated Galaxies

Abstract

Older and more recent pieces of observational evidence suggest a strong connection between QSOs and galaxies; in particular, the recently discovered correlation between black hole and galactic bulge masses suggests that QSO activity is directly connected to the formation of galactic bulges. The cosmological problem of QSO formation is analyzed in the framework of an analytical model for galaxy formation; for the first time a joint comparison with galaxy and QSO observables is performed. In this model it is assumed that the same physical variable which determines galaxy morphology is able to modulate the mass of the black hole responsible for QSO activity. Both halo spin and the occurence of a major merger are considered as candidates to this role. The predictions of the model are compared to available data for the type-dependent galaxy mass functions, the star-formation history of elliptical galaxies, the QSO luminosity function and its evolution (including the obscured objects contributing to the hard-X-ray background), the mass function of dormant black holes and the distribution of black-hole -- bulge mass ratios. A good agreement with observations is obtained if the halo spin modulates the efficiency of black-hole formation, and if the galactic halos at $z=0$ have shone in an inverted order with respect to the hierarchical one (i.e., stars and black holes in bigger galactic halos have formed before those in smaller ones). This inversion of hierarchical order for galaxy formation, which reconciles galaxy formation with QSO evolution, is consistent with many pieces of observational evidence.

20 pages, figures included, mn.sty, in press on MNRAS, fig 6 changed (new data added at z=4.4)

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