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Shortly after the first results of Chandra and XMM-Newton appeared, many researchers in the field abandoned the term "cooling flow clusters" in favor of the name "cool core clusters". This change, I argue, has been causing damage by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-30 Noam Soker

We derive X-ray mass, luminosity, and temperature profiles for 45 galaxy clusters to explore relationships between halo mass, AGN feedback, and central cooling time. We find that radio--mechanical feedback power (referred to here as "AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-14 Robert Main , Brian McNamara , Paul Nulsen , Helen Russell , Adrian Vantyghem

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

(abridged) We investigate in detail the role of active galactic nuclei on the physical state of the gas in galaxy groups and clusters, and the implications for anisotropy in the CMB from Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect. We include the effect of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Roychowdhury , M. Ruszkowski , B. B. Nath

Our aim is to explore the close environment of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and its connection to the host galaxy through the morphology and dynamics of the cold gas inside the central kpc in nearby AGN. We report Atacama Large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-01 Anelise Audibert , Françoise Combes , Santiago García-Burillo , Kalliopi Dasyra

Three comments are made on AGN heating of cooling flows. A simple physical argument is used to show that the enthalpy of a buoyant radio lobe is converted to heat in its wake. Thus, a significant part of ``cavity'' enthalpy is likely to end…

We analyze heating and cooling processes in an idealized simulation of a cool-core cluster, where momentum-driven AGN feedback balances radiative cooling in a time-averaged sense. We find that, on average, energy dissipation via shock waves…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Yuan Li , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Greg L. Bryan

The impact of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on star formation has implications for our understanding of the relationships between supermassive black holes and their galaxies, as well as for the growth of galaxies over the history of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-24 David J. Rosario , Aditya Togi , Leonard Burtscher , Ric Davies , Taro Shimizu , Dieter Lutz

The time- and ensemble-averaged mechanical energy outputs of radio galaxies may be large enough to offset much of the cooling inferred from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters. But does this heating actually counterbalance the cooling,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitchell C. Begelman

Powerful winds driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to play a fundamental role in the evolution of both supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, quenching star formation and explaining the tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Francesco Tombesi

In cool-core galaxy clusters with central cooling times much shorter than a Hubble time, condensation of the ambient central gas is regulated by a heating mechanism, probably an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Previous analytical work has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-10 Forrest W. Glines , Brian W. O'Shea , G. Mark Voit

Massive galaxies in cooling flow clusters display clear evidence of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Joint X-ray and radio observations have shown that AGN radio jets push aside the surrounding hot gas and form cavities in the…

Simulations of galaxy growth need to invoke strong negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to suppress the formation of stars and thus prevent the over-production of very massive systems. While some observations provide evidence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Peter-Christian Zinn , Enno Middelberg , Ray P. Norris , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to be promising candidates of extragalactic cosmic-ray accelerators and sources, and associated high-energy neutrino and hadronic gamma-ray emission has been studied for many years. We review models…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Kohta Murase

Heating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to stabilize cool-core clusters, limiting star formation and cooling flows. We employ radiative magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to model light AGN jet feedback with different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-28 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

To examine how AGN feedback shapes the intracluster medium (ICM) and fuels black hole accretion in the cool-core galaxy cluster Abell 2597, we present deep ($\sim$600 ks) Chandra X-ray observations complemented by archival GMRT radio and…

The active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomena results from a supermassive black hole accreting its surrounding gaseous and dusty material. The infrared (IR) regime provides most of the information to characterize the dusty structures that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-31 Jianwei Lyu , George Rieke

New X-ray observations with XMM-Newton show a lack of spectral evidence for large amounts of cooling and condensing gas in the centers of galaxy clusters believed to harbour strong cooling flows. The paper reexplores the cooling flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Boehringer , K. Matsushita , E. Churazov , Y. Ikebe , Y. Chen

The thermal broadening of emission lines of heavy ions is small enough such that Doppler shifts due to bulk motions may be detected with the next generation of X-ray observatories. This opens up the possibility to study gas velocities in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Brueggen , M. Hoeft , M. Ruszkowski

The role of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback in dwarf galaxies remains poorly understood, with conventional wisdom suggesting it primarily suppresses star formation. Using high-resolution MACER3D simulations that directly resolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Tingfang Su , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Haojie Xia , Yuxuan Zou