A Practical Guide to the Massive Black Hole Cosmic History
Figure 1
First DM halos allowing for efficient gas cooling. Red lines show the mass of different peaks of the halo mass function as a function of redshift; dashed blue lines show the minimum mass required for efficient H2 (lower) and H (upper) cooling. Diamonds at and mark halo masses needed for efficient H and H2 cooling at those redshifts. Adapted by Volonteri from [41].
