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We study the formation of disks via the cooling flow of gas within galactic haloes using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. These simulations resolve mass scales of a few thousand solar masses in the gas component for the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

We present a multiphase model for the evolution of elliptical galaxies. Diffuse gas, molecular clouds, stars and remnants are taken into account. Cloud--cloud collisions and stimulated processes are the main causes of star formation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Federico Ferrini , Bianca Maria Poggianti

Observations indicate that early-type galaxies exhibit varying slopes in the relation between their central stellar surface density and stellar mass ($\Sigma_1 - M_{\star}$). Low-mass galaxies tend to follow a steep slope, close to one,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Fazeel Mahmood Khan , Ángel Rodríguez , Andrea V. Macciò , Smarika Sharma

Hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) have typically employed feedback that is purely local: i.e., an injection of energy to the immediate neighborhood of the black hole. We perform GADGET-2 simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Clay Hambrick , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson

The radiative cooling time of hot gas in the cool cores of many galaxy clusters and massive elliptical galaxies drops in the centre to below 100 million years. The mass cooling rates inferred from simple modelling of X-ray observations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 L. R. Ivey , A. C. Fabian , J. S. Sanders , C. Pinto , G. J. Ferland , S. Walker , J. Jiang

Feedback from outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) can affect the distribution and properties of the gaseous halos of galaxies. We study the hydrodynamics and non-thermal emission from the forward outflow shock produced by an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb

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 stars and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) primarily affects the formation and evolution of galaxies and the circumgalactic medium, leaving some kind of imprint on larger scales. Based on the {\sc Simba} hydrodynamical simulation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 Carlo Schimd , Katarina Kraljic , Romeel Davé , Christophe Pichon

A major amendment in recent models of hierarchical galaxy formation is the inclusion of so-called AGN feedback. The energy input from an active central massive black hole is invoked to suppress star formation in early-type galaxies at later…

We ask how the inclusion of various physical heating processes due to the metal content of gas affect the evolution of massive galaxies and compute a suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations that follow these systems and their…

To tackle the still unsolved and fundamental problem of the role of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in shaping galaxies, in this work we implement a new physical treatment of AGN-driven winds into our semi-analytic model of galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 N. Menci , F. Fiore , F. Shankar , L. Zanisi , C. Feruglio

The quenching "maintenance'" and related "cooling flow" problems are important in galaxies from Milky Way mass through clusters. We investigate this in halos with masses $\sim 10^{12}-10^{14}\,{\rm M}_{\odot}$, using non-cosmological…

Recent well resolved numerical simulations of AGN feedback have shown that its effects on the host galaxy may be not only negative but also positive. In the late gas poor phase, AGN feedback blows the gas away and terminates star formation.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Andrew King , Mark Wilkinson

The radiative cooling timescales at the centers of hot atmospheres surrounding elliptical galaxies, groups, and clusters are much shorter than their ages. Therefore, hot atmospheres are expected to cool and to form stars. Cold gas and star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen

We have performed hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation in a LCDM universe. We have followed galaxy formation in a dark matter halo, chosen to have a relatively quiet recent merger history, using different models for star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takashi Okamoto , Vince R. Eke , Carlos S. Frenk , Adrian Jenkins

Feedback processes are thought to solve some of the long-standing issues of the numerical modelling of galaxy formation: over-cooling, low angular momentum, massive blue galaxies, extra-galactic enrichment, etc. The accretion of gas onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-08 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

Growing supermassive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN) release energy with the potential to alter their host galaxies and larger-scale environment; a process named "AGN feedback". Feedback is a required component of galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-15 Chris M. Harrison , Cristina Ramos Almeida

We study the feedback between heating and cooling of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in cooling flow (CF) galaxies and clusters. We adopt the popular view that the heating is due to an active galactic nucleus (AGN), i.e. a central black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Pizzolato , Noam Soker

Outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are an important channel for accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to interact with their host galaxies and clusters. Properties of the outflows are however poorly constrained due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Yu Qiu , Brian R. McNamara , Tamara Bogdanovic , Kohei Inayoshi , Luis C. Ho

We use cosmological hydrodynamical zoom-in simulations with the SPH code gasoline of four haloes of mass M_{200} \sim 10^{13}\Msun to study the response of the dark matter to elliptical galaxy formation. Our simulations include metallicity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Aaron A. Dutton , Andrea V. Macciò , Gregory S. Stinson , Thales A. Gutcke , Camilla Penzo , Tobias Buck