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The Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei and their Spins

  • Authors: M. Volonteri, M. Sikora, J.-P. Lasota, and A. Merloni

Volonteri et al. 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 775 94.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Top panel: relationship between MBH mass and circular velocity. The circles are model MBHs at z = 0 and the error bars show the datapoints collected in Kormendy et al. (2011) and the best fit derived in Volonteri et al. (2011c). Bottom panel: fraction of spheroids as a function of stellar mass. We scale from halo mass to stellar mass through the data described in Figure 1 of Hopkins et al. (2010), assuming that a fixed fraction (10%–50%) of the baryons is in stars (open red points and filled orange points, respectively). We compare the fraction of spheroids to the result of Conselice (2006).

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