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AGN feedback now appears as an attractive mechanism to resolve some of the outstanding problems with the "standard" cosmological models, in particular those related to massive galaxies. To directly constrain how this may influence the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. P. H. Nesvadba , M. D. Lehnert , C. De Breuck , A. M. Gilbert , W. van Breugel

During the last decade, wide-angle powerful outflows from AGN, both on parsec and kpc scales, have been detected in many galaxies. These outflows are widely suspected to be responsible for sweeping galaxies clear of their gas. We present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-18 Kastytis Zubovas , Andrew King

Residual star formation at late times in early-type galaxies and their progenitors must be suppressed in order to explain the population of red, passively evolving systems we see today. Likewise, residual or newly accreted reservoirs of…

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

The diminishing of star formation is accompanied by size differentiating, as quiescent galaxies are more compact than star-forming galaxies at fixed stellar mass. In order to understand how galaxy quenching is related to galaxy sizes, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-30 Haochen Jiang , Enci Wang , Kai Wang , Chengyu Ma , Xu Kong

To investigate the differences in mechanical feedback from radio-loud and radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the host galaxy, we perform 3D AMR hydrodynamic simulations of wide angle, radio-quiet winds with different inclinations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Zachary Dugan , Volker Gaibler , Joseph Silk

We use deep JWST/NIRSpec R~1000 slit spectra of 113 galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3.5, selected from the mass-complete Blue Jay survey, to investigate the prevalence and typical properties of neutral gas outflows at cosmic noon. We detect excess Na…

We perform two dimensional hydrodynamic numerical simulations to study the positive active galactic nucleus feedback which triggers, rather than suppresses, star formation. Recently, it was shown by Nayakshin et al. and Ishibashi et al.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Chao Liu , Zhao-ming Gan , Fu-guo Xie

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

Large-scale outflows driven by AGNs are an important element of galaxy evolution. Detailed analysis of their properties allows us to probe the activity history of the galactic nucleus and, potentially, other properties of the host galaxy. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Kastytis Zubovas , Matas Tartėnas

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

We study the quenching of star formation as a function of redshift, environment and stellar mass in the galaxy formation simulations of Henriques et al. (2015), which implement an updated version of the Munich semi-analytic model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Bruno M. B. Henriques , Simon D. M. White , Peter A. Thomas , Raul E. Angulo , Qi Guo , Gerard Lemson , Wenting Wang

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

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, capable of regulating star formation in galaxies via radiative and mechanical feedback. While AGN feedback is well studied in host galaxies, its influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 Apashanka Das , Biswajit Pandey

We present hydrodynamical simulations of major mergers of galaxies and study the effects of winds produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) on interstellar gas in the AGN's host galaxy. We consider winds with initial velocities ~ 10,000 km/s…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jackson DeBuhr , Eliot Quataert , Chung-Pei Ma

There is growing observational evidence for dwarf galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN), including hints of AGN-driven outflows in dwarfs. However, in the common theoretical model of galaxy formation, efficient supernova (SN)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-02 Sophie Koudmani , Debora Sijacki , Matthew C. Smith

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has often been invoked both in simulations and in interpreting observations for regulating star formation and quenching cooling flows in massive galaxies. AGN activity can, however, also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Rebekka Bieri , Yohan Dubois , Joseph Silk , Gary Mamon , Volker Gaibler

Observations at low redshift have begun to tease out the star formation rate in active galaxies (AGN), which marks the beginning of the black hole-star formation connection over cosmic time. Star formation appears to depend on AGN type,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Chandra B. Singh , Nelitha Kulasiri , Max North , David Garofalo

Observations indicate that massive galaxies at z~2 are more compact than galaxies of comparable mass at z~0, with effective radii evolving by a factor of ~3-5. This implies that galaxies grow significantly in size but relatively little in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian , R. E. A. Canning

An increasing number of observations and simulations suggests that low-power (<10$^{44}$ erg s$^{-1}$) jets may be a significant channel of feedback produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN), but little is known about their actual effect on…