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Black Hole Demographics: Statistical Characteristics of Accreting Black Holes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2010

Hagai Netzer
Hagai Netzer*
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel Email: netzer@wise.tau.ac.il
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This review summarizes the important properties of active black holes (BHs) up to z ~ 2; their mass, accretion rate, and growth rate. At higher redshifts, such information is only available for small samples that do not represent the entire population of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Black hole spin is still unknown; it is speculated to change with redshift, but with little experimental evidence. The available data sets also enable a direct comparison of BH accretion rates and host galaxy star-formation rates (SFRs). The ratio of the BH growth rate g(BH) and the bulge growth rate g(bulge), suggests that the two are proportional to each other. The local value of g(bulge)/g(BH) in low-luminosity AGNs is of order 100 and the corresponding ratio in high-luminosity, high-redshift AGNs is of order 10. This has important implications regarding the parallel evolution of active BHs and their hosts.

Keywords

galaxies: activegalaxies: evolutiongalaxies: nuclei
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Contributed Papers
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S267: Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies , August 2009 , pp. 213 - 222
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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