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Submillimeter Evidence for the Coeval Growth of Massive Black Holes and Galaxy Bulges

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dc.creator Page, M. J.
dc.creator Stevens, J. A.
dc.creator Mittaz, J. P. D.
dc.creator Carrera, Francisco J.
dc.date 2008-05-04T18:55:01Z
dc.date 2008-05-04T18:55:01Z
dc.date 2002-02-05
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:09:24Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:09:24Z
dc.identifier Science 294 : 2516 (2001)
dc.identifier 0036-8075
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3978
dc.identifier 10.1126/science.1065880
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3978
dc.description Originally published in Science Express as 10.1126/science.1065880 on November 1, 2001. Published in Science, 294, 2516. Also in Science Online: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/5551/2516
dc.description The correlation, found in nearby galaxies, between black hole mass and stellar bulge mass implies that the formation of these two components must be related. Here we report submillimeter photometry of eight x-ray absorbed active galactic nuclei which have luminosities and redshifts characteristic of the sources that produce the bulk of the accretion luminosity in the universe. The four sources with the highest redshifts are detected at 850 microns, with flux densities between 5.9 and 10.1 milliJanskies, and hence are ultraluminous infrared galaxies. Interpreting the submillimeter flux as emission from dust heated by starbursts, these results suggest that the majority of stars in spheroids were formed at the same time as their central black holes built up most of their mass by accretion, accounting for the observed demography of massive black holes in the local universe. The skewed rate of submillimeter detection with redshift is consistent with a high redshift epoch of star formation in radio quiet active galactic nuclei, similar to that seen in radio galaxies.
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.format 128877 bytes
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science
dc.relation Preprint
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1065880
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Black holes
dc.subject Stellar bulges
dc.subject Mass correlation
dc.subject Accretion luminosity
dc.subject Submillimeter flux
dc.subject Astrophysics
dc.title Submillimeter Evidence for the Coeval Growth of Massive Black Holes and Galaxy Bulges
dc.type Pre-print


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