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• W2895513751 abstract "The duration of quasar accretion episodes is a key quantity for distinguishing between models for the formation and growth of supermassive black holes, the evolution of quasars, and their potential feedback effects on their host galaxies. However, this critical timescale, often referred to as the quasar lifetime, is still uncertain by orders of magnitude ($t_{rm Q} simeq 0.01,{rm Myr} - 1,{rm Gyr}$). Absorption spectra of quasars exhibiting transmission in the He II Ly$alpha$ forest provide a unique opportunity to make precise measurements of the quasar lifetime. Indeed, the size of a quasar's He II proximity zone, the region near the quasar itself where its own radiation dramatically alters the ionization state of the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM), depends sensitively on its lifetime for $t_{rm Q}lesssim 30$ Myr, comparable to the expected $e$-folding time-scale for SMBH growth $t_{rm S}=45$ Myr. In this study we compare the sizes of He II proximity zones in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectra of 6 z~4 quasars to theoretical models generated by post-processing cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with $1$D radiative transfer algorithm. We introduce a Bayesian statistical method to infer the lifetimes of individual quasars which allows us to fully marginalize over the unknown ionization state of the surrounding IGM. We measure lifetimes $0.63^{+0.82}_{-0.40}$ Myr and $5.75^{+4.72}_{-2.74}$ Myr for two objects. For the other 4 quasars large redshift uncertainties undermine our sensitivity allowing us to only place upper or lower limits. However a joint analysis of these four systems yields a measurement of their average lifetime of $langle t_{rm Q}rangle = 1.17^{+1.77}_{-0.84}$ Myr. We discuss our short ~1 Myr inferred lifetimes in the context of other quasar lifetime constraints and the growth of SMBHs." @default.
• W2895513751 created "2018-10-12" @default.
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• W2895513751 date "2019-01-12" @default.
• W2895513751 modified "2023-10-13" @default.
• W2895513751 title "Evidence for short ∼ 1 Myr lifetimes from the He <scp>ii</scp> proximity zones of <i>z</i> ∼ 4 quasars" @default.
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