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Cold Gas in Massive Galaxies as A Critical Test of Black Hole Feedback Models

Authors :
Benedikt Diemer
Luis C. Ho
Qiusheng Gu
Annalisa Pillepich
Adam R. H. Stevens
Yingjie Peng
Roberto Maiolino
Lizhi Xie
Jiaxuan Li
Jingjing Shi
Di Li
Xu Kong
Yu Gao
Jing Dou
Chengpeng Zhang
Alvio Renzini
Claudia del P. Lagos
Filippo Mannucci
Shi, J [0000-0001-9879-4926]
Diemer, B [0000-0001-9568-7287]
Pillepich, A [0000-0003-1065-9274]
Renzini, A [0000-0002-7093-7355]
Dou, J [0000-0002-6961-6378]
Gu, Q [0000-0002-3890-3729]
Ho, LC [0000-0001-6947-5846]
Kong, X [0000-0002-7660-2273]
Li, J [0000-0001-9592-4190]
Maiolino, R [0000-0002-4985-3819]
Mannucci, F [0000-0002-4803-2381]
Zhang, C [0000-0001-6469-1582]
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Shi, Jingjing [0000-0001-9879-4926]
Diemer, Benedikt [0000-0001-9568-7287]
Pillepich, Annalisa [0000-0003-1065-9274]
Renzini, Alvio [0000-0002-7093-7355]
Dou, Jing [0000-0002-6961-6378]
Gu, Qiusheng [0000-0002-3890-3729]
Ho, Luis C [0000-0001-6947-5846]
Kong, Xu [0000-0002-7660-2273]
Li, Jiaxuan [0000-0001-9592-4190]
Maiolino, Roberto [0000-0002-4985-3819]
Mannucci, Filippo [0000-0002-4803-2381]
Zhang, Chengpeng [0000-0001-6469-1582]
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
arXiv, 2022.

Abstract

Black hole feedback has been widely implemented as the key recipe to quench star formation in massive galaxies in modern semi-analytic models and hydrodynamical simulations. As the theoretical details surrounding the accretion and feedback of black holes continue to be refined, various feedback models have been implemented across simulations, with notable differences in their outcomes. Yet, most of these simulations have successfully reproduced some observations, such as stellar mass function and star formation rate density in the local Universe. We use the recent observation on the change of neutral hydrogen gas mass (including both ${\rm H_2}$ and ${\rm HI}$) with star formation rate of massive central disc galaxies as a critical constraint of black hole feedback models across several simulations. We find that the predictions of IllustrisTNG agree with the observations much better than the other models tested in this work. This favors IllustrisTNG's treatment of active galactic nuclei - where kinetic winds are driven by black holes at low accretion rates - as more plausible amongst those we test. In turn, this also indirectly supports the idea that the massive central disc galaxy population in the local Universe was likely quenched by AGN feedback.<br />Comment: 15 pages, 3+4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....24d2843304620cc50c679fe3ce969131
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2202.01376