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There is compelling evidence that active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in high-density regions have undergone a different evolution than their counterparts in the field, indicating that they are strongly affected by their environment. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-06 E. Koulouridis , A. Gkini , E. Drigga

In M84 dust features are not aligned with the galaxy isophotes but are perpendicular to the radio jets. We estimate the timescale that the gas disk should precess in the galaxy. Since this timescale is short ($\sim 2\times 10^7$ years at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Quillen , Gary Bower

We propose that the observed misalignment between extra-solar planets and their hot host stars can be explained by angular momentum transport within the host star. Observations have shown that this misalignment is preferentially around hot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. M. Rogers , D. N. C. Lin , H. H. B. Lau

Exoplanets whose orbit is misaligned with the spin of their host star could have originated from high-speed gas blobs, which are observed in multitudes in nearby supernova remnants and planetary nebulae. These blobs grow in mass and slow…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar , Erez Ribak

We study the origin of misalignments between the stellar and star-forming gas components of simulated galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. We focus on galaxies with stellar masses $\geq 10^9$ M$_\odot$ at 0$\leq$z$\leq$1. We compare the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-07 Catalina I. Casanueva , Claudia del P. Lagos , Nelson D. Padilla , Thomas A. Davison

Modern galaxy formation theory suggests that the misalignment between stellar and gaseous components usually results from an external gas accretion and/or interaction with other galaxies. The extreme case of the kinematic misalignment is…

The main fuelling processes for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are currently unknown. Previous work showed that galaxies with a large kinematic misalignment between their stellar and gas reservoirs have a higher AGN fraction than galaxies…

We study the origin of the wide distribution of angles between the angular momenta of the stellar and gas components, $\alpha_{\rm G,S}$, in early-type galaxies (ETGs). We use the GALFORM model of galaxy formation, set in the $\Lambda$ cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Claudia del P. Lagos , N. D. Padilla , T. A. Davis , C. G. Lacey , C. M. Baugh , V. Gonzalez-Perez , M. Zwaan , S. Contreras

We use a combination of data from the MaNGA survey and MaNGA-like observations in IllustrisTNG100 to determine the prevalence of misalignment between the rotational axes of stars and gas. This census paper outlines the typical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Christopher Duckworth , Rita Tojeiro , Katarina Kraljic

Multi-scale simulations have made it possible to follow gas inflows onto massive black holes (BHs) from galactic scales to the accretion disk. When sufficient gas is driven towards the BH, gravitational instabilities generically form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Christopher C. Hayward , Desika Narayanan , Lars Hernquist

We use a sample of active galaxies from the Cosmic Evolution Survey to show that host galaxy morphology is tied to the accretion rate and X-ray obscuration of its active galactic nucleus (AGN). Unobscured and rapidly accreting broad-line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-20 Jonathan R. Trump

Supermassive black hole (BH) mergers produce powerful gravitational wave (GW) emission. Asymmetry in this emission imparts a recoil kick to the merged BH, which can eject the BH from its host galaxy altogether. Recoiling BHs could be…

Outflows accelerated by AGN are commonly observed in the form of coherent, mildly collimated high-velocity gas directed along the AGN ionisation cones and kinetically powerful (>$10^{44-45}$ erg/s) jets. Recent works found that outflows can…

One important question in active galactic nucleus (AGN) is how gas is brought down to the galaxy center. Both internal secular evolution (torque induced by non-axisymmetric galactic structures such as bars) and external processes (e.g.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Yuren Zhou , Yanmei Chen , Yong Shi , Guinevere Kauffmann , Junfeng Wang , Gaoxiang Jin , Lan Wang , Shuai Feng , Min Bao

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

We study the evolution of angular momenta of ($M_*=10^{10}-10^{12}\msun$) galaxies utilizing large-scale ultra-high resolution cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and find that spin of the stellar component changes direction frequently,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Renyue Cen

The orientation of radio jets relative to their host galaxies offers an interesting avenue for probing the connection between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their surroundings. Several studies have also investigated the orientation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-02 Emma Jane Weller , Pieter van Dokkum

A galaxy disk embedded in a rotating halo experiences a dynamical friction force which causes it to warp when the angular momentum axes of the disk and halo are misaligned. Our fully self-consistent simulations of this process induce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Victor P. Debattista , J. A. Sellwood

We present a detailed analysis of a disc galaxy forming in a high-resolution fully cosmological simulation to investigate the nature of the outer regions of discs and their relevance for the disc formation process. Specifically, we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Rok Roškar , Victor P. Debattista , Alyson M. Brooks , Thomas R. Quinn , Chris B. Brook , Fabio Governato , Julianne J. Dalcanton , James Wadsley

Stellar-gas kinematic misalignments are a transient phenomenon observed in $\sim11\%$ of the local galaxy population. According to current models, misaligned gas is expected to lose angular momentum and relax into the galactic plane on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-22 Maximilian K. Baker , Timothy A. Davis , Freeke van de Voort , Sandra I. Raimundo
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