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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) release huge amounts of energy in their host galaxies, which, if the coupling is sufficient, can affect the interstellar medium (ISM). We use a high-resolution simulation ($\sim6$ pc) of a z $\sim2$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-27 Orianne Roos , Stéphanie Juneau , Frédéric Bournaud , Jared Gabor

Feedback from supermassive black holes is believed to be a critical driver of the observed color bimodality of galaxies above the Milky Way mass scale. AGN feedback has been modeled in many galaxy formation simulations, but most…

We show that the mass fraction of GMC gas (n>100 cm^-3) in dense (n>>10^4 cm^-3) star-forming clumps, observable in dense molecular tracers (L_HCN/L_CO(1-0)), is a sensitive probe of the strength and mechanism(s) of stellar feedback. Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Desika Narayanan , Norman Murray , Eliot Quataert

We present new sub-arcsecond ($\sim$0.3-1 arcsec; $\sim$1--3\,kpc) VLA imaging at 1.4\,GHz and 6\,GHz of 29 optically-selected, [O~{\sc iii}] luminous ($L_{\rm [O III]}$ > 10$^{42.1}$\,erg\,s$^{-1}$), $z<0.2$ quasars drawn from the expanded…

(abridged) We take advantage of the deep Chandra and Spitzer coverage of a large area (more than 10 times the area covered by the Chandra deep fields, CDFs in the COSMOS field, to extend the search of highly obscured, Compton-thick active…

We show that current clustering observations of quasars and luminous AGN can be explained by a merger model augmented by feedback from outflows. Using numerical simulations large enough to study clustering out to 25 comoving h^{-1} Mpc, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Robert J. Thacker , Evan Scannapieco , H. M. P. Couchman , Mark Richardson

We present a framework for forecasting cosmological constraints from future neutral hydrogen intensity mapping experiments at low to intermediate redshifts. In the process, we establish a simple way of comparing such surveys with optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-08 Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Prina Patel , Mario G. Santos

Measuring star formation in quasar host galaxies is crucial for understanding the coevolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and galaxies, yet remains observationally challenging due to severe contamination from active galactic nucleus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-15 Liang Wu , Jun-Xian Wang , Luis C. Ho , Junfeng Wang , Zhicheng He

We present a systematic study of the internal mass structure of early-type galaxies (ETGs) based on 106 galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses with background quasars, all having spectroscopic redshifts. From this parent sample, we select…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Ziyu Guo , Yun Chen , Yiping Shu , Jiaze Gao , Hui Li , Zizhao He , Jun Wang

In order to check for consistency with the radio-loud AGN unification scheme, ISOPHOT data obtained for two small sets of intermediate redshift steep-spectrum 3CR radio galaxies and quasars are being examined. Supplementary submillimeter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ilse M. van Bemmel , Peter D. Barthel , Thijs de Graauw

Most galaxy evolutionary models require quasar feedback to regulate star formation in their host galaxies. In particular, at high redshift, models expect that feedback associated with quasar-driven outflows is so efficient that the gas in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Cano-Diaz , R. Maiolino , A. Marconi , H. Netzer , O. Shemmer , G. Cresci

Variable continuum emission from AGN can be used to probe the structure of their accretion disks via reverberation mapping. Assuming a variable, hot inner light source irradiates the surrounding accretion disk, time delays between different…

Determining the distance of quasar absorption outflows from the central source (R) and their kinetic luminosity are crucial for understanding their contribution to active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. Here we summarize the results for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Timothy R. Miller , Nahum Arav , Xinfeng Xu , Gerard A. Kriss

Feedback by Active Galactic Nuclei is often divided into quasar and radio mode, powered by radiation or radio jets, respectively. Both are fundamental in galaxy evolution, especially in late-type galaxies, as shown by cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 S. Cielo , R. Bieri , M. Volonteri , A. Wagner , Y. Dubois

Baryonic effects such as AGN feedback can significantly impact the matter clustering, are harder to model from first principles, and emerge as a severe limiting factor in weak lensing cosmology. To tackle this issue, we propose a generic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 Shuren Zhou , Pengjie Zhang

Observations reveal that quasar host halos at z~2 have large covering fractions of cool dense gas (>~60% for Lyman limit systems within a projected virial radius). Most simulations have so far have failed to explain these large observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-13 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , R. Feldmann , E. Quataert , D. Keres , P. F. Hopkins , N. Murray

In this review, I discuss some highlights of recent research on molecular gas in galaxies; large-scale CO maps of nearby galaxies are being made, which extend our knowledge on global properties, radial gradients, and spiral structure of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Combes

We use a sample of powerful z~0.1 type 2 quasars ('obscured'; log[L(AGN)/erg/s]>~45), which host kiloparsec-scale ionized outflows and jets, to identify possible signatures of AGN feedback on the total molecular gas reservoirs of their host…

Galactic outflows driven by rapidly-accreting quasars at high redshift are widely expected to play a key role in the short- and long-term future evolution of their host galaxies. Using new and archival ALMA data, we observed the OH 119um…