The Twofold Quasar-Galaxy Connection
Abstract
The rise and the fall of the quasar population are explained in terms of massive black holes forming/accreting during the assemblage of the host galaxies, and of accretion rekindled by interactions of the host with companions in a group. We compute the luminosity functions (LF) out to z= 6. We also predict the masses of relict black holes to be found in many galaxies. We compare the histories of the QSO and of the star light.
- Publication:
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Large Scale Structure: Tracks and Traces
- Pub Date:
- 1998
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9712295
- Bibcode:
- 1998lsst.conf...27C
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, Latex, uses sprocl.sty, 1 ps-figure. Talk presented at the 12th Potsdam Cosmology Workshop in Sept. 1997, to appear in ``Large Scale Structures: Tracks and Traces'', eds. V. Mueller et al., World Scientific 1998