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We report on a series of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of active galactic nucleus (AGN) jet propagation in realistic models of magnetized galaxy clusters. We are primarily interested in the details of energy transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. M. O'Neill , T. W. Jones

We investigate the effects of intermittent strong jets from an Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) of a massive galaxy in the core of a cool core galaxy cluster, on the dynamics and metal distribution of the intra-cluster medium (ICM). We use a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-03 Martin Huarte-Espinosa , Martin Krause , Paul Alexander , Christian R. Kaiser

[abridged] Aims: We test the effects of re-orienting jets from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the intracluster medium in a galaxy cluster environment with short central cooling time. We investigate appearance and properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 S. Cielo , A. Babul , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk , M. Volonteri

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboured by brightest cluster galaxies is expected to play a fundamental role in regulating cooling in the intracluster medium (ICM). While observations and theory suggest energy within jet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-17 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki , Ewald Puchwein

X-Ray observations of groups and clusters of galaxies show that the Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) in their cores is hotter than expected from cosmological numerical simulations of cluster formation which include star formation, radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Zanni , G. Murante , G. Bodo , S. Massaglia , P. Rossi , A. Ferrari

Feeding and feedback of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are critical for understanding the dynamics and thermodynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the cores of galaxy clusters. While radio bubbles inflated by AGN jets could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Gaspari , C. Marlow

We present a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of central AGN driven jets in a dynamic, cosmologically evolved galaxy cluster. Extending previous work, we study jet powers ranging from L_jet = 10^44 erg/s to L_jet =…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Brian J. Morsony , Sebastian Heinz , Marcus Bruggen , Mateusz Ruszkowski

We perform MHD simulations of AGN-blown bubbles in the Intercluster Medium (ICM) containing large-scale coherent magnetic fields. We assume that bubbles, created by the intermittent jets from Active Galactic Nuclei, quickly relax to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Aleksey Mohov , Maxim Lyutikov

We investigate the interaction between active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets and the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. Specifically, we study the efficiency with which jets can drive sound waves into the ICM. Previous works focused…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-06 Christopher J. Bambic , Christopher S. Reynolds

Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are expected to heat the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM). We investigate how the interaction between jets and the ICM appears in high-resolution X-ray observations using mock X-ray observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Mahiro Shirotori , Yutaka Fujita

Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the cores of galaxy clusters have the potential to be a major contributor to the energy budget of the intracluster medium (ICM). To study the dependence of the interaction between the AGN jets and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John C. Vernaleo , Christopher S. Reynolds

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to prevent catastrophic cooling in galaxy clusters. However, how the feedback energy is transformed into heat, and how the AGN jets heat the intracluster medium (ICM) isotropically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 H. -Y. K. Yang , C. S. Reynolds

We investigate the interplay between jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and the surrounding InterStellar Medium (ISM) through full 3D, high resolution, Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulations performed with the FLASH code. We follow the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-17 S. Cielo , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. V. Macciò , A. D. Romeo , J. Silk

We present self-consistent cosmological magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations that simultaneously follow the formation of a galaxy cluster and the magnetic field ejection by an active galactic nucleus (AGN). We find that the magnetic fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-27 Hao Xu , Hui Li , David C. Collins , Shengtai Li , Michael L. Norman

We present numerical simulations investigating the interaction of AGN jets with galaxy clusters, for the first time taking into account the dynamic nature of the cluster gas and detailed cluster physics. The simulations successfully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Heinz , M. Brueggen , A. Young , E. Levesque

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has become a major component in simulations of galaxy evolution, in particular for massive galaxies. AGN jets have been shown to provide a large amount of energy and are capable of quenching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause , Joseph Silk

It is widely accepted that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a key role in the evolution of gas in groups and clusters of galaxies. Unequivocal evidence comes from quasi-spherical X-ray cavities observed near cluster centers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Fulai Guo , William G. Mathews

Simulations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets have thus far been performed almost exclusively using grid-based codes. We present the first results from hydrodynamical tests of AGN jets, and their interaction with the intracluster medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey

Simulations of feedback by jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the past mostly focused on the interaction at large scales as the circumgalactic medium or intra-cluster medium for clusters of galaxies. Only in recent years, simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-10 V. Gaibler

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
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