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While feedback is important in theoretical models, we do not really know if it works in reality. Feedback from jets appears to be sufficient to keep the cooling flows in clusters from cooling too much and it may be sufficient to regulate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Smita Mathur , Rebecca Stoll , Yair Krongold , Fabrizio Nicastro , Nancy Brickhouse , Martin Elvis

Feedback from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is often implicated as a mechanism that leads to the quenching of galactic star formation. However, AGN-driven quenching is challenging to reconcile with observations that AGN hosts tend to…

Feedback heating from AGN in massive galaxies and galaxy clusters can be thought of as a naturally occurring control system which plays a significant role in regulating both star formation rates and the X-ray luminosity of the surrounding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Edward C. D. Pope

Various types of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are briefly discussed, with an emphasis on the theory of recent X-ray and $\gamma$-ray observations of the subclass, Seyfert 1 galaxies. The large radiation power from AGN is thought to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roland Svensson

We summarize the results from numerical simulations of mass outflows from AGN. We focus on simulations of outflows driven by radiation from large-scale inflows. We discuss the properties of these outflows in the context of the so-called AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel Proga , Ryuichi Kurosawa , Kentaro Nagamine

Energetic feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is an important ingredient for regulating the star-formation history of galaxies in models of galaxy formation, which makes it important to study how AGN feedback actually occurs in…

We study the interaction of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM), in simulations including explicit stellar feedback, multi-phase cooling, accretion-disk winds, and Compton heating. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Philip F. Hopkins , Paul Torrey , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

This is the first paper in a series using our MACER framework to investigate the evolution of a disk galaxy, which emphasizes the role of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback and incorporates cosmological inflows. This paper presents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuxuan Zou , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Luis C. Ho , Yingjie Peng , Jing Wang , Bocheng Zhu , Tao Wang

Depending on the value of the accretion rate, black hole accretion is divided into cold and hot modes. The two modes have distinctly different physics and correspond to two feedback modes. Most previous feedback works either focus only on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Doosoo Yoon , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti , Bocheng Zhu

AGN feedback from supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of early type galaxies is commonly invoked as the explanation for the quenching of star formation in these systems. The situation is complicated by the significant amount of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker , A. Negri , S. Pellegrini , S. Posacki , G. Novak

Large-scale cosmological simulations suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a crucial role in galaxy evolution. In this study, we directly test this hypothesis utilising SDSS spectra of a sample of 48 low redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Patricia S. Bessiere , Cristina Ramos Almeida , Luke R. Holden , Clive N. Tadhunter , Gabriela Canalizo

We study the impact of outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) on galaxy formation. Outflows move into the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM) and heat it sufficiently to prevent it from condensing onto galaxies. In the dense,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Joseph Silk , Rychard Bouwens

Significant reservoirs of cool gas are observed in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. The CGM is also found to contain substantial amounts of metals and dust, which require some transport mechanism. We consider AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

Negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is considered a key mechanism in shaping galaxy evolution. Fast, extended outflows are frequently detected in the AGN host galaxies at all redshifts and luminosities, both in ionised and…

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is expected to impact the amount of cold gas in galaxies by driving strong galactic winds, by preventing external gas inflows, or by changing the thermodynamical state of the gas. We use molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho

As a quenching mechanism, AGN feedback could suppress on-going star formation in their host galaxies. On the basis of a sample of galaxies selected from ALFALFA HI survey, the dependence of their HI mass M[HI], stellar mass M[*] &…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Yi-Nan Zhu , Hong Wu

Energy feedback, either from active galactic nuclei (AGN) or from supernovae, is required to understand galaxy formation within a $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter cosmology. We study a sample of 127 low-mass galaxies, comparing their stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Ignacio Martin-Navarro , Mar Mezcua

Beyond deepening our understanding of the formation, growth, and evolution of supermassive black holes, it is crucial to uncover the role of feeding and feedback processes from growing black holes (i.e., active galactic nucleus; AGN) in…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are massive black holes (BHs) caught in the act of accreting gas at the centre of their host galaxies. Part of the accreting mass is converted to energy and released into the surrounding medium, in a process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 Luca Sala , Elia Cenci , Pedro R. Capelo , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti

In the last years, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have become more popular than ever. The possibility of using them to produce feedback effects that would help solving some of the still open questions connected to the hierarchical scenario of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Raffaella Morganti