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Waldek was interested in this subject during the 2002/2003 academic year. Any students interested in this theme, please edit this page a translate this to a page FormacjiGalAGN w po polsku.

background:

• FLRW model

• unified AGN model

galaxy formation model

• small density perturbations of about 10^{-5} at z=1100 grow with time

by gravitational collapse and form dark matter (baryonic + non-baryonic) haloes, which merge and become successively larger

• gas cools and forms stars in the haloes
  • AstroPh:0103156, AstroPh:0007281 semi-analytical galaxy formation models
    • - Baugh et al.
  • AstroPh:0105152 hybrid gal formation models - complications - Roukema et al.
    • - the ArFus model (GPL) can be downloaded and run, modified etc
    • GALICS models (Paris)
  • AstroPh:0010587 Virgo Consortium hydro simulations

DM

• NonBaryonicDarkMatter

gas

• neutral hydrogen clouds in the galactic halo - e.g. AstroPh:0311217

SMBH/AGN formation questions

• Do any SMBHs start forming before DM haloes have formed?
• Do SMBHs form in the "initial" collapse of a halo, or only when haloes and/or galaxies merge?
  • AstroPh:0212400 during initial collapse of haloes/galaxies - Bromm, Loeb
• Do SMBHs "light up" as AGNs during major mergers of galaxies (mergers between two galaxies of similar mass) or also during minor

mergers (galaxies of different mass, e.g. ratio 10:1)?

• AstroPh:0208026 AGN from major mergers model - Enoki et al.
• AstroPh:0207276 AGN from major mergers model - Volonteri et al.
• AstroPh:9907335 AGN accretion + major mergers model
  • - Cattaneo, Haehnelt, Rees
• AstroPh:9909290 AGN accretion + major mergers model - Franceschini et al.

intuition/education - nice g formation movies

• http://cosmocoffee.info/viewtopic.php?t=160