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2019ApJ...881..145S - Astrophys. J., 881, 145-145 (2019/August-3)

A catastrophic failure to build a massive galaxy around a supermassive black hole at z = 3.84.

SCHRAMM M., RUJOPAKARN W., SILVERMAN J.D., NAGAO T., SCHULZE A., AKIYAMA M., IKEDA H., OHTA K. and KOTILAINEN J.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present observations of the stellar and molecular gas mass of SDSS J163909+282447.1, a luminous quasar at z = 3.84 with an extreme mass for a supermassive black hole (SMBH; MBH = 2.5 x 1010 M). The local SMBH mass-galaxy mass relation predicts a massive host galaxy with Mstellar >= 1012 M for this quasar. Based on sensitive near-infrared imaging with adaptive optics (AO) using Subaru, the stellar light from the host is undetected, thus resulting in an upper limit on the mass, Mstellar < 6.3 x 1010 M, a factor of >=16 less than expected. The CO(4 - 3) observations at 0.''2 resolution using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array indicate a molecular gas mass from CO of MH2_∼4.5×109M and a dynamical mass within a radius of 0.45 ± 0.2 kpc of Mdyn=4–4+10×1010M. With the SMBH accounting for ∼60% of the dynamical mass and considering the amount of molecular gas, we find an upper limit on the stellar mass to be Mstellar <= 1.5 x 1010 M, a value consistent with the limit from Subaru AO imaging. Based on these results, this SMBH has one of the largest host stellar mass deficits known given its SMBH mass; hence, it is unclear how to grow a SMBH/host galaxy to such a state since there is not enough molecular gas available to form a substantial amount of stellar mass to make up for the difference. Any physical model is likely to require an earlier phase of super-Eddington accretion onto the SMBH.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - galaxies: evolution - galaxies: nuclei - quasars: supermassive black holes

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