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In these proceedings I briefly: (1) review the impact (or "feedback") that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are predicted to have on their host galaxies and larger scale environment, (2) review the observational evidence for or against these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Harrison

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

(Abridged) We study the interaction of relativistic jets from AGNs with the ISM in their host galaxy, using a series of Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulations of the evolution of the interaction between the cocoon produced by the jet with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk

We present 2D hydrodynamical simulations for the evolution of early-type galaxies containing central massive black holes (MBHs), starting at age 2 Gyr. The code contains accurate and physically consistent radiative and mechanical AGN wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 L. Ciotti , S. Pellegrini , A. Negri , J. P. Ostriker

We investigate the effects of AGN feedback on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing two-dimensional high-resolution hydrodynamical numerical simulations. The inner boundary of the simulation is chosen so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Feng Yuan , Doosoo Yoon , Ya-Ping Li , Zhao-Ming Gan , Luis C. Ho , Fulai Guo

Feedback from stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) primarily affects the formation and evolution of galaxies and the circumgalactic medium, leaving some kind of imprint on larger scales. Based on the {\sc Simba} hydrodynamical simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Carlo Schimd , Katarina Kraljic , Romeel Davé , Christophe Pichon

We predict the observational signatures of galaxy scale outflows powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Most of the emission is produced by the forward shock driven into the ambient interstellar medium (ISM) rather than by the reverse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jesse Nims , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

The energy released by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) has a strong impact on the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). This feedback is considered to be the regulating factor for the growth of the central massive black hole, and for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Raffaella Morganti , Judit Fogasy , Zsolt Paragi , Tom Oosterloo , Monica Orienti

Galactic feedback strongly affects the way galactic environments are enriched. We examine this connection by performing a suite of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, exploring a range of parameters based on the galaxy formation model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Joshua Suresh , Simeon Bird , Mark Vogelsberger , Shy Genel , Paul Torrey , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback operated by the expansion of radio jets can play a crucial role in driving gaseous outflows on galaxy scales. Galaxies hosting young radio AGN, whose jets are in the first phases of expansion through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 F. Santoro , C. Tadhunter , D. Baron , R. Morganti , J. Holt

The role of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback in dwarf galaxies remains poorly understood, with conventional wisdom suggesting it primarily suppresses star formation. Using high-resolution MACER3D simulations that directly resolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Tingfang Su , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Haojie Xia , Yuxuan Zou

The impact of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the cosmological evolution of the large scale structure is a long studied problem. However, it is still not well understood how the feedback energy couples to the ambient medium to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-20 Rudrani Kar Chowdhury , Suchetana Chatterjee , Ankit Paul , Craig L. Sarazin , Jane Lixin Dai

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

We use the SIMBA galaxy formation simulation suite to explore anisotropies in the properties of circumgalactic gas that result from accretion and feedback processes. We particularly focus on the impact of bipolar active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-19 Tianyi Yang , Romeel Davé , Weiguang Cui , Yan-Chuan Cai , John A. Peacock , Daniele Sorini

This paper summarizes our recent works of studying AGN feedback in an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing high-resolution hydrodynamical numerical simulations. Bondi radius is resolved and the mass accretion rate of the black hole is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-17 Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , DooSoo Yoon , Ya-Ping Li , Luca Ciotti , Zhao-Ming Gan , Luis C. Ho , Fulai Guo

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

We explore the effect of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from central galaxies on their satellites by comparing two sets of cosmological zoom-in runs of 27 halos with masses ranging from $10^{12}$ to $10^{13.4}$ solar masses at z=0,…

It is well known that active galactic nuclei (AGN) show various forms of interaction with their host galaxy, in a number of phenomena generally called AGN feedback. In particular, the relativistic plasma jets launched by a fraction of AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-03 Marco Berton , Emilia Järvelä

We conducted 22~GHz 1" JVLA imaging of 100 radio-quiet X-ray selected AGN from the Swift-BAT survey. We find AGN-driven kiloparsec-scale radio structures inconsistent with pure star formation in 11 AGN. The host galaxies of these AGN lie…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-02 Krista Lynne Smith , Michael Koss , Richard Mushotzky , O. Ivy Wong , T. Taro Shimizu , Claudio Ricci , Federica Ricci