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One of the key physical processes that helps prevent strong cooling flows in galaxy clusters is the continued energy input from the central active galactic nucleus (AGN) of the cluster. However, it remains unclear how this energy is…

The matter content of jets in active galactic nuclei is examined in a new way. We model the dynamical expansion of its cocoon embedded in the intra-cluster medium (ICM). By comparing the observed shape of the cocoon with that expected from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kino , N. Kawakatu

We perform MHD simulations of AGN-blown bubbles in the Intercluster Medium (ICM) containing large-scale coherent magnetic fields. We assume that bubbles, created by the intermittent jets from Active Galactic Nuclei, quickly relax to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-03 Aleksey Mohov , Maxim Lyutikov

We present the results of three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of interaction of AGN jets with a dense turbulent two-phase interstellar medium, which would be typical of high redshift galaxies. We describe the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Ralph S. Sutherland , A. Y. Wagner

Massive molecular clouds have been discovered in massive elliptical galaxies at the center of galaxy clusters. Some of this cold gas is expected to flow in the central supermassive black holes and activate galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Yutaka Fujita , Takuma Izumi , Nozomu Kawakatu , Hiroshi Nagai , Ryo Hirasawa , Yu Ikeda

In Part I of this paper we described an equilibrium model of a jet in the gravitational field corresponding to the rigid-rotation region of the galactic disk. We used linear stability analysis to find the waveguide-resonance instability of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. L. Afanasiev , S. N. Dodonov , S. S. Khrapov , A. V. Moiseev , V. V. Mustsevoy

Powerful relativistic jets are one of the main ways in which accreting black holes provide kinetic feedback to their surroundings. Jets launched from or redirected by the accretion flow that powers them should be affected by the dynamics of…

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

Coupling between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is critical to the interplay between radiative cooling and feedback heating in the atmospheres of the universe's most massive galaxies. This paper presents a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Deovrat Prasad , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has long been invoked to explain the correlation between black hole mass and stellar velocity dispersion (M-$\sigma$) discovered in low redshift galaxies. We describe the time evolution of AGN in…

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to play a significant role in suppressing cooling flows in cool-core (CC) clusters. Turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM), which may be induced by AGN activity or pre-existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Jia-Lun Li , H. -Y. Karen Yang

Mechanical feedback via Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets in the centres of galaxy groups and clusters is a crucial ingredient in current models of galaxy formation and cluster evolution. Jet feedback is believed to regulate gas cooling and…

We investigate the observable effects of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on non-thermal components of the intracluster medium (ICM). We have modelled feedback from AGN in cosmological simulations with the adaptive mesh refinement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Vazza , M. Brueggen , C. Gheller

Energy deposition by active galactic nuclei jets into the ambient medium can affect galaxy formation and evolution, the cooling of gas flows at the centres of galaxy clusters, and the growth of the supermassive black holes. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Omer Bromberg

We present a hybrid active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback model that features three accretion disc states (the thick, thin, and slim discs at low, moderate, and super-Eddington accretion rates, respectively), and two feedback modes:…

We investigate the polarization properties of Comptonized X-rays from relativistic jets in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) using Monte Carlo simulations. We consider three scenarios commonly proposed for the observed X-ray emission in AGN:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Aimee L. McNamara , Zdenka Kuncic , Kinwah Wu

We study the feedback from an AGN on stellar formation within its host galaxy, mainly using one high resolution numerical simulation of the jet propagation within the interstellar medium of an early-type galaxy. In particular, we show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Tortora , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , S. Kaviraj , J. Silk , A. D. Romeo , U. Becciani

Winds and jets are symbiotic when the accretion rate is low, according to black hole accretion theory. Both components are potentially important for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, but previous works typically include only jets with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

According to the currently favored picture, relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are launched in the vicinity of the black hole by magnetic fields extracting energy from the spinning black hole or the accretion disk. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Talvikki Hovatta

We use the results of relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of jet-ISM interactions in a galaxy with a radio-loud AGN to quantify the extent of ionization in the central few kpcs of the gaseous galactic disc. We perform post-process…