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We present the results of three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of interaction of AGN jets with a dense turbulent two-phase interstellar medium, which would be typical of high redshift galaxies. We describe the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Ralph S. Sutherland , A. Y. Wagner

Relativistic jets from AGN are an important driver of feedback in galaxies. They interact with their environments over a wide range of physical scales during their lifetime, and an understanding of these interactions is crucial for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Dipanjan Mukherjee

Relativistic jets can interact with the ambient gas distribution of the host galaxy, before breaking out to larger scales. In the past decade several studies have simulated jet-driven outflows to understand how they affect the nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Alexander Y. Wagner

We study the interactions of a relativistic jet with a dense turbulent gaseous disk of radius $\sim 2$ kpc. We have performed a suite of simulations with different mean density, jet power and orientation. Our results show that: A) the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Alexander Y. Wagner , Ralph S. Sutherland , Joseph Silk

Radio mode feedback, associated with the propagation of powerful outflows in active galaxies, is a crucial ingredient in galaxy evolution. Extragalactic jets are well collimated and relativistic, both in terms of thermodynamics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 Manel Perucho , José María Martí , Vicent Quilis , Marina Borja-Lloret

We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to model mechanical and thermal feedback from AGN onto the evolution of Seyfert-type galaxies, studying the morphology of central galaxies growing within dark matter (DM) halos with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-18 Julianne Goddard , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

The evolution of powerful extragalactic jets is not only interesting by itself, but also for its impact on the evolution of the host galaxy and its surroundings. We have performed long-term axisymmetric numerical simulations of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Manel Perucho , José María Martí , Vicent Quilis , Elena Ricciardelli

Relativistic jets accompany the collapse of massive stars, the merger of compact objects, or the accretion of gas in active galactic nuclei. They carry information about the central engine and generate electromagnetic radiation. No…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Xiaoyi Xie , Alan Tsz-Lok Lam

Extragalactic jets are formed close to supermassive black-holes in the center of galaxies. Large amounts of gas, dust, and stars cluster in the galaxy nucleus, and interactions between this ambient material and the jet base should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Manel Perucho , Maxim V. Barkov

We describe techniques for incorporating feedback from star formation and black hole accretion into simulations of isolated and merging galaxies. At present, the details of these processes cannot be resolved in simulations on galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Springel , Tiziana Di Matteo , Lars Hernquist

The current understanding of the formation of powerful bi-directional jets in systems such as radio galaxies and quasars is that the process involves a supermassive black hole that is being fed with magnetized gas through an orbiting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-03-25 C Sivaram , Kenath Arun

We investigate the dynamics and morphology of jets propagating into the interstellar medium using 2D relativistic hydrodynamic simulations. The calculations are performed assuming axisymmetric geometry and trace a long propagation of jets.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Akira Mizuta , Shoichi Yamada , Hideaki Takabe

Pairs of radio emitting jets with lengths up to several hundred kiloparsecs emanate from the central region (the `core') of radio loud active galaxies. In the most powerful of them, these jets terminate in the `hotspots', compact high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Markos Georganopoulos , Demosthenes Kazanas

We examine the detailed physics of the feedback mechanism by relativistic AGN jets interacting with a two-phase fractal interstellar medium in the kpc-scale core of galaxies using 29 3D grid-based hydrodynamical simulations. The feedback…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Y. Wagner , G. V. Bicknell , M. Umemura

Accretion onto the massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy can feed energy and momentum into its surroundings via radiation, winds and jets. Feedback due to radiation pressure can lock the mass of the black hole onto the M-sigma…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. C. Fabian

Galactic jets are powerful energy sources reheating the intra-cluster medium in galaxy clusters. Their crucial role in the cosmic puzzle, motivated by observations, has been established by a great number of numerical simulations missing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manel Perucho , Vicent Quilis , José María Martí

We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations to model feedback from Seyfert-type supermassive black hole (SMBH) jets onto galaxies with identical dark matter (DM) halos of log(M/M$_\odot$) ~ 11.8. The low mass, ~10$^6$ M$_\odot$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-16 Julianne Goddard , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

Super-Eddington accretion is one scenario that may explain the rapid assembly of $\sim 10^9\rm\, M_\odot$ supermassive black holes (BHs) within the first billion year of the Universe. This critical regime is associated with radiatively…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Warren Massonneau , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois , Ricarda S. Beckmann

Energy deposition by active galactic nuclei jets into the ambient medium can affect galaxy formation and evolution, the cooling of gas flows at the centres of galaxy clusters, and the growth of the supermassive black holes. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg

There is abundant evidence that heating processes in the central regions of elliptical galaxies has both prevented large-scale cooling flows and assisted in the expulsion of metal rich gas. We now know that each such spheroidal system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Ostriker , L. Ciotti
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