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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
卷 432, 期 2, 页码 463-466出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041717
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black hole physics; galaxies : active; galaxies : evolution; X-rays : galaxies
We show that black holes grow substantially by accretion at close to Eddington rates. Using a complete sample of soft X-ray selected AGNs, Grupe & Mathur ( 2004, ApJ, 606, L41) have shown that narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies, as a class, lie below the M-BH-sigma relation of normal galaxies. Some NLS1s, however, lie on or close to the M-BH-sigma relation. Here we show that not all NLS1s accrete at close to Eddington rates: those with low L/ L-Eddington are close to the M-BH-sigma relation, and those with high L/ L-Eddington are far from it. With various tests in this paper, we argue that black holes grow in mass substantially in their high-accretion phase and approach the M-BH- sigma relation over time. The mass growth in a low accretion phase, as in BLS1s and also in some NLS1s, appears to be insignificant. Any theoretical model attempting to explain the M-BH-sigma relation needs to explain the above observations.
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