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Feeding and feedback of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are critical for understanding the dynamics and thermodynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the cores of galaxy clusters. While radio bubbles inflated by AGN jets could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Gaspari , C. Marlow

Heating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to stabilize cool-core clusters, limiting star formation and cooling flows. We employ radiative magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to model light AGN jet feedback with different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-28 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We analyzed the feedback of AGN jets on cooling flow clusters using three-dimensional AMR hydrodynamic simulations. We studied the interaction of the jet with the intracluster medium and creation of low X-ray emission cavities (Bubbles) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Alouani Bibi , J. Binney , K. Blundell , H. Omma

High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the hot gas in galaxy clusters has shown that the gas is not cooling to low temperatures at the predicted rates of hundreds to thousands of solar masses per year. X-ray images have revealed giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboured by brightest cluster galaxies is expected to play a fundamental role in regulating cooling in the intracluster medium (ICM). While observations and theory suggest energy within jet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-17 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki , Ewald Puchwein

In many observed galaxy clusters, jets launched by the accretion process on to supermassive black holes, inflate large-scale cavities filled with energetic, relativistic plasma. This process is thought to be responsible for regulating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

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

AGN jets carry more than sufficient energy to stave off catastrophic cooling of the intracluster medium (ICM) in the cores of cool-core clusters. However, in order to prevent catastrophic cooling, the ICM must be heated in a near-isotropic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Arif Babul , Prateek Sharma , Christopher S. Reynolds

It is now widely accepted that heating processes play a fundamental role in galaxy clusters, struggling in an intricate but fascinating `dance' with its antagonist, radiative cooling. Last generation observations, especially X-ray, are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Gaspari , C. Melioli , F. Brighenti , A. D'Ercole

Several galaxy clusters are known to present multiple and misaligned pairs of cavities seen in X-rays, as well as twisted kiloparsec-scale jets at radio wavelengths. It suggests that the AGN precessing jets play a role in the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Caproni , Z. Abraham , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. M. Teixeira

Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the cores of galaxy clusters have the potential to be a major contributor to the energy budget of the intracluster medium (ICM). To study the dependence of the interaction between the AGN jets and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John C. Vernaleo , Christopher S. Reynolds

Several arguments suggest that stochastic condensation of cold gas and its accretion onto the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) is essential for active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback to work in the most massive galaxies that lie at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-10 Deovrat Prasad , Prateek Sharma , Arif Babul

Hot, underdense bubbles powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are likely to play a key role in halting catastrophic cooling in the centers of cool-core galaxy clusters. We present three-dimensional simulations that capture the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

We analyze our earlier three-dimensional hydrodynamical numerical simulation of jet-inflated bubbles in cooling flow clusters, and find that dense gas that was not heated by the jets' activity and that resides around the hot jet-inflated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Shlomi Hillel , Noam Soker

Using high-resolution 3-D and 2-D (axisymmetric) hydrodynamic simulations in spherical geometry, we study the evolution of cool cluster cores heated by feedback-driven bipolar active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. Condensation of cold gas, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 Deovrat Prasad , Prateek Sharma , Arif Babul

We perform high-resolution (15-30 pc) adaptive mesh simulations to study the impact of momentum-driven AGN feedback in cool-core clusters, focusing in this paper on the formation of cold clumps. The feedback is jet-driven with an energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

We study the interplay between turbulent heating, mixing, and radiative cooling in an idealized model of cool cluster cores. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are expected to drive turbulence and heat cluster cores. Cooling of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Nilanjan Banerjee , Prateek Sharma

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to be the most promising solution to the cooling flow problem in cool-core clusters, though how exactly the jet energy is transformed into heat is a subject of debate. Dissipation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Shiang-Chih Wang , H. -Y. Karen Yang

We present the first implementation of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in the form of momentum driven jets in an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) cosmological resimulation of a galaxy cluster. The jets are powered by gas accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

Conduction as a mechanism for explaining the disrupted cooling-flow in galaxy clusters has been mostly discounted, as the process is inefficient at transporting heat all the way from the cluster into the core. However, thermal conduction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Jennifer Stafford , Sebastian Heinz , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Torsten Enßlin , Yi-Hao Chen