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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 897, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab960e
Keywords
Supermassive Black Holes; N-body simulations; Dwarf galaxies; Black Hole physics
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- National Science Foundation [OCI-0725070, ACI-1238993, NSF-AST-1813871, AST-1812642]
- state of Illinois
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We investigate the effects of massive black hole growth on the structural evolution of dwarf galaxies within the ROMULUS25 cosmological hydrodynamical simulation. We study a sample of 205 central, isolated dwarf galaxies with stellar masses M-star < 10(10) M-circle dot and a central BH. We find that the local M-BH-M-star relation exhibits a high degree of scatter below M-star < 10(10)M(circle dot), which we use to classify BHs as overmassive or undermassive relative to their host M-star. Within isolated dwarf galaxies, only 8% of undermassive BHs ever undergo a BH merger, while 95% of overmassive BHs grow through a mixture of BH mergers and accretion. We find that isolated dwarf galaxies that host overmassive BHs also follow different evolutionary tracks relative to their undermassive BH counterparts, building up their stars and dark matter earlier and experiencing star formation suppression starting around z = 2. By z = 0.05, overmassive BH hosts above M-star > 10(9) M-circle dot are more likely to exhibit lower central stellar mass density, lower H I gas content, and lower star formation rates than their undermassive BH counterparts. Our results suggest that overmassive BHs in isolated galaxies above M-star > 10(9) M-circle dot are capable of driving feedback, in many cases suppressing and even quenching star formation by late times.
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