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We present a physical model for the coevolution of massive spheroidal galaxies and active nuclei at their centers. Supernova heating is increasingly effective in slowing down the star formation and in driving gas outflows in smaller and smaller dark matter halos. Thus the more massive protogalaxies virializing at early times are the sites of faster star formation. The correspondingly higher radiation drag causes a faster angular momentum loss by the gas and induces a larger accretion rate onto the central black hole. In turn, the kinetic energy of the outflows powered by the active nuclei can unbind the residual gas in a time shorter for larger halos. The model accounts for a broad variety of dynamical, photometric and metallicity properties of early-type galaxies, for the MBH–σ relation and for the local supermassive black-hole mass function.
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Danese, L. et al. From First Galaxies to QSOs –Feeding the Baby Monsters. In: Merloni, A., Nayakshin, S., Sunyaev, R.A. (eds) Growing Black Holes: Accretion in a Cosmological Context. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11403913_7
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