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The feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a crucial role in regulating the thermodynamics and the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM). Studying the turbulent patterns of the hot and warm ionized phases may allow us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Stefano Sotira , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti

We develop a new sub-grid model for the growth of supermassive Black Holes (BHs) and their associated Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Assuming that BHs are created in the early stages of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are powered by the accretion of disks of gas onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Stars and stellar remnants orbiting the SMBH in the nuclear star cluster (NSC) will interact with the AGN disk. Orbiters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-02 Gaia Fabj , Syeda S. Nasim , Freddy Caban , K. E. Saavik Ford , Barry McKernan , Jillian M. Bellovary

The cosmological inflow of a galaxy is speculated to be able to enter the galaxy and enhance the star formation rate (SFR) and black hole accretion rate (BHAR). In this paper, by performing high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-19 Bocheng Zhu , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Yingjie Peng , Luis C. Ho , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti

The ISM evolution of elliptical galaxies experiencing feedback from accretion onto a central black hole was studied recently with high-resolution 1D hydrodynamical simulations including radiative heating and pressure effects, a RIAF-like…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Pellegrini , L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker

We study the impact of outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) on galaxy formation. Outflows move into the surrounding intergalactic medium (IGM) and heat it sufficiently to prevent it from condensing onto galaxies. In the dense,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Joseph Silk , Rychard Bouwens

Feedback effects generated by supernovae (SNe) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are pivotal in shaping the evolution of galaxies and their present-day structures. However, our understanding of the specific mechanisms operating at galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-20 Kentaro Nagamine

The observed massive end of the galaxy stellar mass function is steeper than its predicted dark matter halo counterpart in the standard $\Lambda $CDM paradigm. In this paper, we investigate the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN)…

In this study, we present a detailed, statistical analysis of black hole growth and the evolution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations run down to $z=0$. The simulations self-consistently follow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michaela Hirschmann , Klaus Dolag , Alexandro Saro , Lisa Karin Bachmann , Stefano Borgani , Andreas Burkert

One important question in active galactic nucleus (AGN) is how gas is brought down to the galaxy center. Both internal secular evolution (torque induced by non-axisymmetric galactic structures such as bars) and external processes (e.g.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Yuren Zhou , Yanmei Chen , Yong Shi , Guinevere Kauffmann , Junfeng Wang , Gaoxiang Jin , Lan Wang , Shuai Feng , Min Bao

Metals in the hot gaseous halos of galaxies encode the history of star formation as well as the feedback processes that eject metals from the galaxies. X-ray observations suggest that massive galaxies have extended distributions of metals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-25 Ena Choi , Ryan Brennan , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Michaela Hirschmann , Thorsten Naab

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

Simulations of feedback by jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the past mostly focused on the interaction at large scales as the circumgalactic medium or intra-cluster medium for clusters of galaxies. Only in recent years, simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-10 V. Gaibler

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation in representative regions of the Universe typically need to resort to subresolution models to follow some of the feedback processes crucial for galaxy formation. Here, we show that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Ewald Puchwein , Volker Springel

Massive molecular gas has been discovered in giant elliptical galaxies at the centers of galaxy clusters. To reveal its role in active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in those galaxies, we construct a semianalytical model of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-10 Yutaka Fujita , Nozomu Kawakatu , Hiroshi Nagai

We use a state-of-the-art semi-analytic model to study the size and the specific angular momentum of galaxies. Our model includes a specific treatment for the angular momentum exchange between different galactic components. Disk scale radii…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-28 Anna Zoldan , Gabriella De Lucia , Lizhi Xie , Fabio Fontanot , Michaela Hirschmann

We report on the discovery of a new quantitative relationship between X-ray gas morphology and radio and X-ray AGN luminosities in normal elliptical galaxies. This is the second paper in a series using data on 54 objects from the Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven Diehl , Thomas S. Statler

Modeling the spectral energy distribution (SED) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a very important role in constraining modern cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Here, we utilize an advanced supermassive black hole (SMBH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Tong Su , Qi Guo , Erlin Qiao , Wenxiang Pei , Luis C. Ho , Cedric G. Lacey

Simulations of galaxy growth need to invoke strong negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to suppress the formation of stars and thus prevent the over-production of very massive systems. While some observations provide evidence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Peter-Christian Zinn , Enno Middelberg , Ray P. Norris , Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

We study the imprints of AGN feedback and physical viscosity on the properties of galaxy clusters using hydrodynamical simulation models carried out with the TreeSPH code GADGET-2. Besides self-gravity of dark matter and baryons, our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel
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