http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6325
We study the effects of a detailed treatment of dust physics on the properties and evolution of early-type galaxies containing central black holes, as determined by AGN feedback. We find that during cooling flow episodes, radiation pressure on the dust in and interior to infalling shells of cold gas can greatly impact the amount of gas able to be accreted and therefore the frequency of AGN bursts. However, the overall hydrodynamic evolution of all models, including mass budget, is relatively robust to the assumptions on dust. Our most detailed models find that the dust to metals ratio is reduced by factors of $10^{-1}-10^{-2}$ relative to Milky Way abundances, and in quiescent phases the dust content of the galaxy would result in ~0.03 magnitudes of extinction to the center of the galaxy. We find that IR re-emission from hot dust can dominate the bolometric luminosity of the galaxy during the early stages of an AGN burst, reaching values in excess of $10^{46}$ erg/s. The AGN-emitted UV is largely absorbed, but the optical depth in the IR does not exceed unity, so the radiation momentum input never exceeds $L_{\rm BH}/c$. We constrain the viability of our models by comparing the energy output in each band, AGN duty cycle, FIR emission, dust mass and opacity, black hole mass, and other model predictions to current observations. These constraints force us to models wherein the destruction of dust in hot gas by sputtering and the competing growth of dust in cold gas results in depletion at the $\simeq10^{-2}$ level, and only models with a dynamic dust to gas ratio are able to produce both quiescent galaxies consistent with observations and high obscured fractions during AGN “on” phases. During AGN outbursts, we predict that a large fraction of the FIR luminosity can be attributed to warm dust emission ($\simeq100$ K) from dense dusty gas within $\leq$1 kpc reradiating the AGN UV emission.
B. Hensley, J. Ostriker and L. Ciotti
Thu, 27 Feb 14
41/59