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This is the first paper in a series using our MACER framework to investigate the evolution of a disk galaxy, which emphasizes the role of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback and incorporates cosmological inflows. This paper presents the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuxuan Zou , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Luis C. Ho , Yingjie Peng , Jing Wang , Bocheng Zhu , Tao Wang

We identify the intrinsic dependence of star formation quenching on a variety of galactic and environmental parameters, utilizing a machine learning approach with Random Forest classification. We have previously demonstrated the power of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 Asa F. L. Bluck , Joanna M. Piotrowska , Roberto Maiolino

The co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their environment is most directly traced by the hot atmospheres of dark matter halos. Cooling of the hot atmosphere supplies the central regions with fresh gas, igniting active galactic…

Gas accretion by a galaxy's central super massive black hole (SMBH) and the resultant energetic feedback by the accreting active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the gas in and around a galaxy, are two tightly intertwined but competing processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Tom Oosterloo , Raffaella Morganti , Suma Murthy

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are accreting supermassive black holes co-evolving with their host galaxies through a complex interplay of feeding and feedback. In this chapter, we first discuss AGN fuelling in galaxies, both in interacting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Pedro R. Capelo , Chiara Feruglio , Ryan C. Hickox , Francesco Tombesi

Dwarf galaxy anomalies, such as their abundance and cusp-core problems, remain a prime challenge in our understanding of galaxy formation. The inclusion of baryonic physics could potentially solve these issues, but the efficiency of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-07 Gohar Dashyan , Joseph Silk , Gary A. Mamon , Yohan Dubois , Tilman Hartwig

We study the quenching of star formation as a function of redshift, environment and stellar mass in the galaxy formation simulations of Henriques et al. (2015), which implement an updated version of the Munich semi-analytic model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-21 Bruno M. B. Henriques , Simon D. M. White , Peter A. Thomas , Raul E. Angulo , Qi Guo , Gerard Lemson , Wenting Wang

Recent observations with JWST and ALMA have revealed extremely massive quiescent galaxies at redshifts of z=3 and higher, indicating both rapid onset and quenching of star formation. Using the cosmological simulation suite Magneticum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-26 Lucas C. Kimmig , Rhea-Silvia Remus , Benjamin Seidel , Lucas M. Valenzuela , Klaus Dolag , Andreas Burkert

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback provides the link between the central black hole and its host galaxy. We assume AGN feedback driven by radiation pressure on dust, which sweeps up the ambient dusty gas into an outflowing shell, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is expected to impact the amount of cold gas in galaxies by driving strong galactic winds, by preventing external gas inflows, or by changing the thermodynamical state of the gas. We use molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho

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…

Quasar feedback outflows are commonly invoked to drive gas out of galaxies in the early gas-rich epoch to terminate growth of galaxies. Here we present simulations that show that AGN feedback may drive not only gas but also stars out of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

We present a simple model for low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (LLAGN) feedback through winds produced by a hot accretion flow. The wind carries considerable energy and deposits it on the host galaxy at kiloparsec scales and beyond,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-22 Ivan Almeida , Rodrigo Nemmen , Rogemar A. Riffel

Large scale, weakly collimated outflows are very common in galaxies with large infrared luminosities. In complex systems in particular, where intense star formation (SF) coexists with an active galactic nucleus (AGN), it is not clear yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Claudio Melioli , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

There is compelling evidence that the most massive galaxies in the Universe stopped forming stars due to the time-integrated feedback from their central super-massive black holes (SMBHs). However, the exact quenching mechanism is not yet…

Using the cosmological simulations IllustrisTNG, we perform a comprehensive analysis of quiescent, massive galaxies at $z \gtrsim 3$. The goal is to understand what suppresses their star formation so early in cosmic time, and how other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-28 Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan , Marion Farcy , Michaela Hirschmann , Francesco Valentino

We study the effects of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback on the formation and evolution of galaxies in a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. This model is an improved version of the one described by Cora (2006), which now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claudia del P. Lagos , Sofia A. Cora , Nelson D. Padilla , .

Galactic outflows, driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN), play a crucial role in galaxy formation and in the self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes (BHs). AGN feedback couples to and affects gas, rather than stars, and in many,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-10 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Gohar Dashyan

AGN outflows are the heat given up when gas in a galaxy evolves towards thermodynamic equilibrium. Indeed, while AGN feedback regulates the growth of massive galaxies, its origins can be understood as the spontaneous thermodynamic process…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Edward C. D. Pope

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the role of feedback from accreting black holes on the evolution of sizes, compactness, stellar core density and specific star-formation of massive galaxies with stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Ena Choi , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Michaela Hirschmann