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Large scale, weakly collimated outflows are very common in galaxies with large infrared luminosities. In complex systems in particular, where intense star formation (SF) coexists with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), it is not clear yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Claudio Melioli , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

This is the fourth paper of our series investigating the effects of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the evolution of an elliptical galaxy using the {\it MACER} framework. While previous works considered only AGN radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Bocheng Zhu

The energy released by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) has a strong impact on the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). This feedback is considered to be the regulating factor for the growth of the central massive black hole, and for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Raffaella Morganti , Judit Fogasy , Zsolt Paragi , Tom Oosterloo , Monica Orienti

Feedback driven by jets from active galactic nuclei is believed to be responsible for reducing cooling flows in cool-core galaxy clusters. We use simulations to model feedback from hydrodynamic jets in isolated halos. While the jet…

[abridged] AGN feedback is a crucial ingredient for understanding galaxy evolution. However, a complete quantitative time-dependent framework, including the dependence of such feedback on AGN, host galaxy, and host halo properties, is yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni

While in massive galaxies active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback plays an important role, the role of AGN feedback is still under debate in dwarf galaxies. With well spatially resolved data obtained from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Zhiyuan Zheng , Yong Shi , Fuyan Bian , Xiaoling Yu , Junfeng Wang , Jianhang Chen , Xin Li , Qiusheng Gu

We consider if outflowing winds that are detected via narrow absorption lines (NALs) with FWHM of $<$ 500 km/s (i.e., NAL outflows) in quasar spectra contribute to feedback. As our sample, we choose 11 NAL systems in eight optically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-01 Toru Misawa , Jane C. Charlton , Michael Eracleous

Feedback processes are thought to solve some of the long-standing issues of the numerical modelling of galaxy formation: over-cooling, low angular momentum, massive blue galaxies, extra-galactic enrichment, etc. The accretion of gas onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

We summarize the results from numerical simulations of mass outflows from AGN. We focus on simulations of outflows driven by radiation from large-scale inflows. We discuss the properties of these outflows in the context of the so-called AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Proga , Ryuichi Kurosawa , Kentaro Nagamine

We perform high-resolution (15-30 pc) adaptive mesh simulations to study the impact of momentum-driven AGN feedback in cool-core clusters, focusing in this paper on the formation of cold clumps. The feedback is jet-driven with an energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

It is usually assumed that outflows from luminous AGN are either in the energy-conserving (non-radiative) or in the momentum-conserving (radiative) regime. We show that in a non-spherical geometry the effects of both regimes may manifest at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin

Depending on the value of the accretion rate, black hole accretion is divided into cold and hot modes. The two modes have distinctly different physics and correspond to two feedback modes. Most previous feedback works either focus only on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Doosoo Yoon , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti , Bocheng Zhu

The physical processes responsible of sweeping up the surrounding gas in the host galaxy of an AGN, and able in some circumstances to expel it from the galaxy, are not yet well known. The various mechanisms are briefly reviewed: quasar or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Combes

The study of the conditions and the kinematics of the gas in the central region of AGN provides important information on the relevance of feedback effects connected to the nuclear activity. Quantifying these effects is key for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Raffaella Morganti , Joanna Holt , Clive Tadhunter , Tom Oosterloo

We present the first implementation of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in the form of momentum driven jets in an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) cosmological resimulation of a galaxy cluster. The jets are powered by gas accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

Feedback from accreting supermassive black holes, active galactic nuclei (AGN), is now a cornerstone of galaxy formation models. In this work, we present radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of radiative AGN feedback using the novel Arepo-RT.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-06 David J. Barnes , Rahul Kannan , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci

We study the feedback between heating and cooling of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in cooling flow (CF) galaxies and clusters. We adopt the popular view that the heating is due to an active galactic nucleus (AGN), i.e. a central black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Pizzolato , Noam Soker

The aim of this paper is to test the basic model of negative AGN feedback. According to this model, once the central black hole accretes at the Eddington limit and reaches a certain critical mass, AGN driven outflows blow out gas,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 B. Balmaverde , A. Marconi , M. Brusa , S. Carniani , G. Cresci , E. Lusso , R. Maiolino , F. Mannucci , T. Nagao

Actively accreting supermassive black holes significantly impact the evolution of their host galaxies, truncating further star formation by expelling large fractions of gas with wide-angle outflows. The X-ray band is key to understanding…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 A. Ogorzalek , A. L. King , S. W. Allen , J. C. Raymond , D. R. Wilkins

AGN outflows are the heat given up when gas in a galaxy evolves towards thermodynamic equilibrium. Indeed, while AGN feedback regulates the growth of massive galaxies, its origins can be understood as the spontaneous thermodynamic process…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Edward C. D. Pope