Supermassive Black Holes and their host Galaxies : A coevolution overview across cosmic times

ISBN-13: 9783659902307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 364 str.

Rossella Aversa

Opis

Understanding how supermassive black holes and galaxies coevolve within their host dark matter halos is a fundamental issue in Astrophysics. The scenario arising from the results of this book indicates that the black holes grow by accretion in a self-regulated regime, where the presence of a reservoire plays a fundamental role. In the meanwhile, star formation in the host galaxy proceeds within a heavily dust-enshrouded medium, and after roughly 1 Gyr abruptly declines due to quasar feedback. The coevolution of galaxies and hosted supermassive black holes within the gravitationally dominant dark matter component throughout the history of the Universe is also investigated by applying a statistical, model-independent approach based on continuity equation and abundance matching. Thanks to the recent results presented and to the introductive chapters, this book should be very useful in the academic environment.

O autorze

Rossella Aversa has obtained her Ph.D. degree in Astrophysics in 2015. Her passion for this topic was born when she was very young. Her interests are various: she also got a degree in piano performance and attended a master in High Performance Computing. Nowadays she has a post-doc position at CNR.