AN OPTICALLY OBSCURED AGN IN A LOW MASS, IRREGULAR DWARF GALAXY: A MULTI-WAVELENGTH ANALYSIS OF J1329+3234

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found ubiquitously in large, bulge-dominated galaxies throughout the local universe, yet little is known about their presence and properties in bulgeless and low-mass galaxies. This is a significant deficiency, since the mass distribution and occupation fraction...

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Published in:The Astrophysical journal 2015-01, Vol.798 (1), p.1-10
Main Authors: Secrest, N J, Satyapal, S, Gliozzi, M, Rothberg, B, Ellison, S L, Mowry, W S, Rosenberg, J L, Fischer, J, Schmitt, H
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Accretion
ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
BLACK HOLES
Black holes (astronomy)
Dust
Dwarf galaxies
Galaxies
INFRARED SURVEYS
LIMITING VALUES
LUMINOSITY
MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
MASS
MASS DISTRIBUTION
METALLICITY
Signatures
STAR EVOLUTION
STARS
UNIVERSE
WAVELENGTHS
X RADIATION
X-RAY GALAXIES
X-rays
XMM (spacecraft)
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description Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are found ubiquitously in large, bulge-dominated galaxies throughout the local universe, yet little is known about their presence and properties in bulgeless and low-mass galaxies. This is a significant deficiency, since the mass distribution and occupation fraction of nonstellar black holes provide important observational constraints on SMBH seed formation theories and many dwarf galaxies have not undergone major mergers that would erase information on their original black hole population. Using data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, we discovered hundreds of bulgeless and dwarf galaxies that display mid-infrared signatures of extremely hot dust highly suggestive of powerful accreting massive black holes, despite having no signatures of black hole activity at optical wavelengths. Here we report, in our first follow-up X-ray investigation of this population, that the irregular dwarf galaxy J132932.41+323417.0 (z = 0.0156) contains a hard, unresolved X-ray source detected by XMM-Newton with luminosity L sub(2-10 keV) = 2.4 x 10 super(40) erg s super(-1), over two orders of magnitude greater than that expected from star formation, strongly suggestive of the presence of an accreting massive black hole. While enhanced X-ray emission and hot dust can be produced in extremely low metallicity environments, J132932.41+323417.0 is not extremely metal poor ([approximate]40% solar). With a stellar mass of 2.0 x 10 super(8) M sub([middot in circle]), this galaxy is similar in mass to the Small Magellanic Cloud, and is one of the lowest mass galaxies with evidence for a massive nuclear black hole currently known.
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BLACK HOLES
Black holes (astronomy)
Dust
Dwarf galaxies
Galaxies
INFRARED SURVEYS
LIMITING VALUES
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MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
MASS
MASS DISTRIBUTION
METALLICITY
Signatures
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STARS
UNIVERSE
WAVELENGTHS
X RADIATION
X-RAY GALAXIES
X-rays
XMM (spacecraft)
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