AGN Feedback Mechanisms
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Accreting black holes can release enormous amounts of energy to their surroundings, in various forms. Such feedback may profoundly influence a black hole's environment. After briefly reviewing the possible types of feedback, I focus on the injection of kinetic energy through jets and powerful winds. The effects of these outflows may be especially apparent in the heating of the X-ray--emitting atmospheres that pervade clusters of galaxies. Analogous heating effects, during the epoch of galaxy formation, could regulate the growth of supermassive black holes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0303040,
title = {AGN Feedback Mechanisms},
author = {Mitchell C. Begelman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0303040},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
16 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies," ed. L. C. Ho (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)