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Growth of massive black holes by super-Eddington accretion

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Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) and Narrow-Line quasars (NLQs) seem to amount to ˜ 10-30% of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the local universe. Together with their average accretion rate, we argue that a black hole (BH) growth by factor of 8-800 happens in these super-Eddington accretion phase of AGNs. Moreover, there is a possible, systematic underestimation of accretion rates (in the Eddington unit) due to an overestimation of BH mass by massive accretion discs for super-Eddington objects. If it is true, the factor of BH growth above may be larger by order(s) of magnitude. In contrast, the growth factor expected in sub-Eddington phase is only ˜ 2. Therefore, the cosmic BH growth by accretion is likely dominated by super-Eddington phase, rather than sub-Eddington phase which is the majority among AGNs.
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hal-03785165 , version 1 (14-10-2022)

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Toshihiro Kawaguchi, Kentaro Aoki, Kouji Ohta, Suzy Collin. Growth of massive black holes by super-Eddington accretion. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2004, 420, pp.L23-L26. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361:20040157⟩. ⟨hal-03785165⟩
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