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Radio activity in AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) produce feedback on the host galaxy via the impact of the relativistic jets on the circumnuclear gas. Although radio jets can reach up to several times the optical radius of the host galaxy, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-22 Guilherme S. Couto , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Active galactic nucleus (AGN)-driven gas outflows are one of the best tracers of AGN feedback in action, as these powerful outflows expel/heat or compress the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM), thus quenching or enhancing star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Ruisong Xia , Chen Qin , Huynh Anh N. Le , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Mengqiu Huang , Hao Liu , Xiaozhi Lin

Galactic outflows, driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN), play a crucial role in galaxy formation and in the self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes (BHs). AGN feedback couples to and affects gas, rather than stars, and in many,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-10 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Gohar Dashyan

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation feedback may heat and remove gas from galaxies in a process that quenches ongoing star formation and shapes the evolution of galaxies. Potential impacts from these processes can be seen in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Kyla Mullaney , Kelly E. Whalen , Jenna Cann , Kimberly Weaver , Jeffrey McKaig , Sara Doan

Galaxy evolution reveals itself not only through the evolving properties of galaxies themselves but also through its impact on the surrounding environment. The intergalactic medium in particular holds a fossil record of past galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 Jesper Rasmussen , Trevor J. Ponman

In the last decade, observations have accumulated on gas outflows in galaxies, and in particular massive molecular ones. The mass outflow rate is estimated between 1-5 times the star formation rate. For the highest maximal velocities, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 F. Combes

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

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in the center of almost every galaxy. Powerful, highly ionized winds, with velocities $\sim 0.1- 0.2c$ are a common feature in X--ray spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Andrew King , Ken Pounds

The study of the conditions and the kinematics of the gas in the central region of AGN provides important information on the relevance of feedback effects connected to the nuclear activity. Quantifying these effects is key for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Raffaella Morganti , Joanna Holt , Clive Tadhunter , Tom Oosterloo

Powerful relativistic jets in radio galaxies are capable of driving strong outflows but also inducing star-formation by pressure-triggering collapse of dense clouds. We review theoretical work on negative and positive active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 A. Y. Wagner , G. V. Bicknell , M. Umemura , R. S. Sutherland , J. Silk

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) on their host galaxies, in the form of gas outflows capable of quenching star formation, is considered a major player in galaxy evolution. However, clear observational evidence of such major impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Giacomo Venturi , Alessandro Marconi

Large-scale, broad outflows are common in active galaxies. In systems where star formation coexists with an AGN, it is unclear yet the role that both play on driving the outflows. In this work we present three-dimensional radiative-cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-21 E. de Gouveia Dal Pino , W. Clavijo-Bohórquez , C. Melioli

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

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large distances. Here, we explore the direct effects that AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Aura Obreja , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

To investigate the effect of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) on their surrounding medium, we study the diffuse X-ray emission from galaxy groups and clusters by coupling the Astrophysical Plasma Emission Code (APEC) with the…

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 perform simulations to study the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) radiation and wind feedback on the properties of slowly rotating accretion flow at parsec scale. We find that when only radiative feedback is considered, outflows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang

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

Energetic feedback by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) plays an important evolutionary role in the regulation of star formation (SF) on galactic scales. However, the effects of this feedback as a function of redshift and galaxy properties such…

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