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Galactic jets are powerful energy sources reheating the intra-cluster medium in galaxy clusters. Their crucial role in the cosmic puzzle, motivated by observations, has been established by a great number of numerical simulations missing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manel Perucho , Vicent Quilis , José María Martí

Radio-mode AGN feedback plays a key role in the evolution of galaxy groups and clusters. Its physical origin lies in the kpc-scale interaction of AGN jets with the intracluster medium. Large-scale jet simulations often initiate light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Fulai Guo

We investigate the ability of jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to break out of the ambient gas with sufficiently large advance velocities. Using observationally estimated jet power, we analyze 28 bright elliptical galaxies in nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Yutaka Fujita , Nozomu Kawakatu , Isaac Shlosman

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is widely viewed as the most promising solution to the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters, yet previous models prescribe jet properties inconsistent with accretion physics. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Aoyun He , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Minhang Guo , Yuan Li , Haiguang Xu , Ming Sun , Haojie Xia , Yuanyuan Zhao

Mechanical active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback plays a key role in massive galaxies, galaxy groups and clusters. However, the energy content of AGN jets that mediate this feedback process is still far from clear. Here we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Fulai Guo

Active galactic nuclei are clearly heating gas in `cooling flows'. The effectiveness and spatial distribution of the heating are controversial. We use three-dimensional simulations on adaptive grids to study the impact on a cooling flow of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Henrik Omma , James Binney , Greg Bryan , Adrianne Slyz

New X-ray observations with XMM-Newton show a lack of spectral evidence for large amounts of cooling and condensing gas in the centers of galaxy clusters believed to harbour strong cooling flows. The paper reexplores the cooling flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Boehringer , K. Matsushita , E. Churazov , Y. Ikebe , Y. Chen

We analyzed the feedback of AGN jets on cooling flow clusters using three-dimensional AMR hydrodynamic simulations. We studied the interaction of the jet with the intracluster medium and creation of low X-ray emission cavities (Bubbles) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Alouani Bibi , J. Binney , K. Blundell , H. Omma

Galaxy clusters contain a hot, diffuse, and weakly magnetized plasma known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In this environment, how thermal conduction influences plasma dynamics and the conditions under which it operates efficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Nana Matsuno , Takaaki Yokoyama , Mami Machida

Jets powered by active galactic nuclei appear impressively stable compared with their terrestrial and laboratory counterparts-they can be traced from their origin to distances exceeding their injection radius by up to a billion times.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-18 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Serguei S. Komissarov

Extended warm and cold gas nebulae, with complex morphologies and kinematics, have been observed in the centres of cool-core galaxy clusters. Their origin within the hot intracluster medium (ICM) is still puzzling, and among many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Stefano Sotira , Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti

(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

Feedback driven by jets from active galactic nuclei is believed to be responsible for reducing cooling flows in cool-core galaxy clusters. We use simulations to model feedback from hydrodynamic jets in isolated halos. While the jet…

Understanding heating processes in galaxy clusters is essential for predicting the regulation of radiative cooling and star formation, and for clarifying the mechanisms underlying active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in cool-core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Moun Meenakshi , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Thomas Berlok

Context. Relativistic jets emerging from AGN cores transfer energy from the core to their surrounding ISM/IGM. Because jets are observed to have finite opening angles, one needs to quantify the role of conical versus cylindrical jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Remi Monceau-Baroux , Rony Keppens , Zakaria Meliani

Multiwavelength data indicate that the X-ray emitting plasma in the cores of galaxy clusters is not cooling catastrophically. To large extent, cooling is offset by heating due to active galactic nuclei (AGN) via jets. The cool-core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gaspari , M. Ruszkowski , P. Sharma

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising mechanisms for suppressing cooling flows in cool-core clusters. However, the composition of AGN jets and bubbles remains uncertain; they could be thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yen-Hsing Lin , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Ellis R. Owen

AGN bubbles in cool-core galaxy clusters are believed to facilitate the transport of cosmic ray electrons (CRe) throughout the cluster. Recent radio observations are revealing complex morphologies of cluster diffuse emission, potentially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Paola Domínguez-Fernández , John ZuHone , Rainer Weinberger , Elena Bellomi , Lars Hernquist , Paul Nulsen , Gianfranco Brunetti

Relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) convert as much as half of their energy into radiation. To explore the poorly understood processes that are responsible for this conversion, we carry out fully 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Rodolfo Barniol Duran , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Dimitrios Giannios

Jets from supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxy clusters are a potential candidate for moderating gas cooling and subsequent star formation through depositing energy in the intra-cluster gas. In this work, we simulate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-02 Rainer Weinberger , Kristian Ehlert , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel