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AGN feedback is now widely believed to play a crucial role in the co-evolution between the central black hole and its host galaxy. Two feedback modes have been identified, namely the radiative and kinetic modes, which correspond to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 Fu-Guo Xie , Feng Yuan , Luis C. Ho

We present new results from the ASTRID simulation from $z=3$ to $z=0.5$, covering the epoch of cosmic noon. The galaxy stellar mass function, as well as the black hole mass and luminosity functions in ASTRID, exhibit good agreement with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-18 Yueying Ni , Nianyi Chen , Yihao Zhou , Minjung Park , Yanhui Yang , Tiziana DiMatteo , Simeon Bird , Rupert Croft

The feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a crucial role in regulating the thermodynamics and the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM). Studying the turbulent patterns of the hot and warm ionized phases may allow us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Stefano Sotira , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti

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 find that the power of jets that inflate bubble pairs in cooling flow clusters of galaxies correlates with the size of the inner region where the entropy profile is flat, as well as with the gas mass in that region and the entropy floor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-22 Fabio Pizzolato , Tavish Kelly , Noam Soker

We present numerical simulations of galaxy clusters with stochastic heating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) that are able to reproduce the observed entropy and temperature profiles of non-cool-core (NCC) clusters. Our study uses N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-30 C. J. Short , P. A. Thomas , O. E. Young

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

Feedback in massive galaxies generally involves quenching of star formation, a favored candidate being outflows from a central supermassive black hole. At high redshifts however, explanation of the huge rates of star formation often found…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Rebekka Bieri , Yohan Dubois , Joseph Silk , Gary A. Mamon

While cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have reached maturity, able to reproduce many fundamental galaxy and halo properties, no consensus has yet been reached on the impact of `baryonic feedback' on the non-linear matter power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Leah Bigwood , Martin A. Bourne , Vid Irsic , Alexandra Amon , Debora Sijacki

Aims. Recent observational studies suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may play an important role in the formation and evolution of low-mass dwarf galaxies, an issue that has received little attention from a theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-27 Elena Arjona-Galvez , Arianna Di Cintio , Robert J. J. Grand

Galaxy evolution is affected by competing feedback processes. Stellar feedback dominates in low-mass galaxies, while AGN feedback predominantly affects massive ones. Recent observational results reveal the dependence of black hole accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Kastytis Zubovas

We use hydrodynamical simulations from the OWLS project to investigate the dependence of the physical properties of galaxy populations at redshift 2 on metal-line cooling and feedback from star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Marcel R. Haas , Joop Schaye , C. M. Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Volker Springel , Tom Theuns , Robert P. C. Wiersma

The lack of very cool gas at the cores of groups and clusters of galaxies, even where the cooling time is significantly shorter than the Hubble time, has been interpreted as evidence of sources that re-heat the intergalactic medium. Most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-30 S. Raychaudhury , S. Giacintucci , E. O'Sullivan , J. M. Vrtilek , J. Croston , R. Athreya , L. P. David , T. Venturi

AGN feedback stands for the dramatic impact that a SMBH can make on its environment. It has become an essential element of models that describe the formation and evolution of baryons in massive virialized halos. The baryons' radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , Y. Li , E. Churazov

We develop semi-empirical models of the supermassive black hole and active galactic nucleus (AGN) populations, which incorporate the black hole growth implied by the observed AGN luminosity function assuming a radiative efficiency \epsilon,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesco Shankar , David H. Weinberg , Jordi Miralda-Escude'

The processes governing both the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies are discussed by means of a new multi-zone photo-chemical evolution model for elliptical galaxies, taking into account detailed nucleosynthetic yields, feedback…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Antonio Pipino , Francesca Matteucci

Turbulence in the intracluster, intragroup, and circumgalactic medium plays a crucial role in the self-regulated feeding and feedback loop of central supermassive black holes. We dissect the three-dimensional turbulent `weather' in a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 D. Wittor , M. Gaspari

We discuss the role of feedback from AGNs on the formation of spheroidal galaxies. The energy released by an accreting Black Hole (BH) may be injected into the ISM through blast waves arising directly from the central engine, radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Monaco

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can strongly impact the host galaxies by driving high-velocity winds that impart substantial energy and momentum to the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we study the impact of these winds…

We study the effect of active galactic nuclei (AGN) heating on the chemodynamical evolution of elliptical galaxies and their X-ray and optical properties using high-resolution Lambda-dominated cold dark matter cosmological simulations. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daisuke Kawata , Brad K. Gibson