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Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2006

Amy J. Barger
Amy J. Barger
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 475 N. Charter St., Madison, WI 53706, USA email: barger@astro.wisc.edu Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Abstract

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Chandra and XMM detect X-rays emitted during accretion onto supermassive black holes, even when they are highly obscured. I review what has been learned about the cosmic evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions and the reconstruction of the accretion history of supermassive black holes from extensive follow-up observations of both deep and wide-area Chandra X-ray surveys.

Keywords

cosmology: observationsgalaxies: activegalaxies: distances and redshiftsgalaxies: evolutionX-rays: galaxies
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 1 , Symposium S230: Populations of High Energy Sources in Galaxies , August 2005 , pp. 463 - 471
Copyright
2006 International Astronomical Union