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Using a combination of deep 574ks Chandra data, XMM-Newton high-resolution spectra, and optical Halpha+NII images, we study the nature and spatial distribution of the multiphase plasma in M87. Our results provide direct observational…

We present a measurement of the fraction of cluster galaxies hosting X-ray bright Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as a function of clustercentric distance scaled in units of $r_{500}$. Our analysis employs high quality Chandra X-ray and Subaru…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Ehlert , A. von der Linden , S. W. Allen , W. N. Brandt , Y. Q. Xue , B. Luo , A. Mantz , R. G. Morris , D. Applegate , P. Kelly

While rich clusters are powerful sources of X-rays, gamma-ray emission from these large cosmic structures has not been detected yet. X-ray radiative energy losses in the central regions of relaxed galaxy clusters are so strong that one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-18 D. A. Prokhorov , E. M. Churazov

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) drive fast winds in the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. It is commonly assumed that the high ambient densities and intense radiation fields in galactic nuclei imply short cooling times, thus making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , E. Quataert

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

A fundamental gap in the current understanding of galaxies concerns the thermodynamical evolution of the ordinary, baryonic matter. On one hand, radiative emission drastically decreases the thermal energy content of the interstellar plasma…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Gaspari , F. Brighenti , P. Temi

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

The incidence and properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the field, groups, and clusters can provide new information about how these objects are triggered and fueled, similar to how these environments have been employed to study…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Timothy J. Arnold , Paul Martini , John S. Mulchaey , Angela Berti , Tesla E. Jeltema

The molecular gas serves as a key probe of the complex interplay between black hole accretion and star formation in the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We use CO(2-1) observations from a new ALMA survey, in conjunction with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Jinyi Shangguan , Luis C. Ho , Franz E. Bauer , Ran Wang , Ezequiel Treister

Winds launched at the scale of the accretion disc or dusty torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to drive energy-conserving outflows that shape galaxy evolution. The key signature of such outflows, the presence of a hot ($T…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Ivan Almeida , Tiago Costa , Chris M. Harrison , Samuel R. Ward

Cluster cool cores possess networks of line-emitting filaments. These filaments are thought to originate via uplift of cold gas from cluster centers by buoyant active galactic nuclei (AGN) bubbles, or via local thermal instability in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Mateusz Ruszkowski , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Christopher S. Reynolds

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

We analyze the basic properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) produced by state of the art cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamical simulations. These simulations have been run with different sub-grid physics included. Here we focus on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa , Gian Luigi Granato , Giuseppe Murante , Stefano Borgani , Weiguang Cui

Most cool core clusters of galaxies possess active galactic nuclei (AGN) in their centers. These AGN inflate buoyant bubbles containing non-thermal radio emitting particles. If such bubbles efficiently confine cosmic rays (CR) then this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Ruszkowski , T. A. Ensslin , M. Bruggen , M. C. Begelman , E. Churazov

Recent XRISM observations suggest that gas mixing induced by sloshing contributes to core heating. We systematically investigate the suppression of cooling flows in galaxy cluster cool cores through three-dimensional hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Keiichi Wada

This contribution illustrates the study of galaxy clusters as astrophysical laboratories as well as probes for the large-scale structure of the Universe. Using the REFLEX Cluster Survey, the measurement of the statistics of the large-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hans Boehringer

Feedback from the central black hole in active galactic nuclei (AGN) may be responsible for establishing the observed MBH-sigma relation and limiting the bulge stellar mass of the host galaxy. Here we explore the possibility of AGN feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has become a major component in simulations of galaxy evolution, in particular for massive galaxies. AGN jets have been shown to provide a large amount of energy and are capable of quenching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause , Joseph Silk

The investigation of the feedback cycle in galaxy clusters has historically been performed for systems where feedback is ongoing ("mature-feedback" clusters), that is where the central radio galaxy has inflated radio lobes, pushing aside…

The importance of feedback (radiative and mechanical) from massive black holes at the centers of elliptical galaxies is not in doubt, given the well established relation among black hole mass and galaxy optical luminosity. Here, with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker