Journal
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2019/07/036
Keywords
dark matter simulations; massive black holes; galaxy formation; dark matter theory
Funding
- McGill Space Institute
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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The existence of supermassive black holes at high redshifts (z similar to 7) is difficult to accommodate in standard astrophysical scenarios. It has been shown that dark matter models with a subdominant self-interacting component are able to produce early seeds for supermassive black holes through the gravothermal catastrophe. Previous studies used a fluid equation approach, requiring some limiting assumptions. Here we reconsider the problem using N-body gravitational simulations starting from the formation of the initial dark matter halo. We consider both elastic and dissipative scattering, and elucidate the interplay between the dark matter microphysics and subsequent accretion of the black hole needed to match the properties of observed high redshift supermassive black holes. We find a region of parameter space in which a small component of self-interacting dark matter can produce the observed high redshift supermassive black holes.
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