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We compare the kinetic energy and momentum injection rates from intense star formation, bolometric AGN radiation, and radio jets with the kinetic energy and momentum observed in the warm ionized gas in 24 powerful radio galaxies at z~2.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 N. Nesvadba , G. Drouart , C. De Breuck , P. Best , N. Seymour , J. Vernet

It has long been known that environment has a large effect on star formation in galaxies. There are several known plausible mechanisms to remove the cool gas needed for star formation, such as strangulation, harassment and ram-pressure…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 P. W. Hatfield , M. J. Jarvis

The central regions of galaxies are complex environments, rich in evolved and/or massive stars. For galaxies hosting an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with jets, the interaction of the jets with the winds of the stars within can lead to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Florencia L. Vieyro , Núria Torres-Albà , Valentí Bosch-Ramon

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

How efficiently star formation proceeds in galaxies is still an open question. Recent studies suggest that AGN can regulate the gas accretion and thus slow down star formation (negative feedback). However, evidence of AGN positive feedback…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-21 Q. Salomé , P. Salomé , F. Combes

The energy emitted by active galactic nuclei (AGN) may provide a self-regulating process (AGN feedback) that shapes the evolution of galaxies. This is believed to operate along two modes: on galactic scales by clearing the interstellar…

We compute 3D gasdynamical models of jet outflows from the central AGN, that carry mass as well as energy to the hot gas in galaxy clusters and groups. These flows have many attractive attributes for solving the cooling flow problem: why…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Gaspari , C. Melioli , F. Brighenti , A. D'Ercole

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

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising mechanisms for suppressing cooling flows in cool-core clusters. However, the composition of AGN jets and bubbles remains uncertain; they could be thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yen-Hsing Lin , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Ellis R. Owen

Massive galaxies today typically are not forming stars despite being surrounded by hot gaseous halos with short central cooling times. This likely owes to some form of "quenching feedback" such as merger-driven quasar activity or radio jets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. M. Gabor , R. Dave' , B. D. Oppenheimer , K. Finlator

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large distances. Here, we explore the direct effects that AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Aura Obreja , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

[abridged] Aims: We test the effects of re-orienting jets from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the intracluster medium in a galaxy cluster environment with short central cooling time. We investigate appearance and properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 S. Cielo , A. Babul , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk , M. Volonteri

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

We present a systematic study of gas accretion and angular momentum in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using high-resolution FIRE cosmological simulations. Our analysis includes halos spanning the critical $\sim 10^{12}\ \mathrm{M}_{\odot}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-17 Imran Sultan , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , Jonathan Stern , Guochao Sun

Recent observations suggested that star formation quenching in galaxies is related to galaxy structure. Here we propose a new mechanism to explain the physical origin of this correlation. We assume that while quiescent galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Fulai Guo

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

We present a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of central AGN driven jets in a dynamic, cosmologically evolved galaxy cluster. Extending previous work, we study jet powers ranging from L_jet = 10^44 erg/s to L_jet =…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Brian J. Morsony , Sebastian Heinz , Marcus Bruggen , Mateusz Ruszkowski

The observed massive end of the galaxy stellar mass function is steeper than its predicted dark matter halo counterpart in the standard $\Lambda $CDM paradigm. In this paper, we investigate the impact of active galactic nuclei (AGN)…

[abridged] AGN feedback is a crucial ingredient for understanding galaxy evolution. However, a complete quantitative time-dependent framework, including the dependence of such feedback on AGN, host galaxy, and host halo properties, is yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-21 Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni

Using several variants of the cosmological Simba simulations, we investigate the impact of different feedback prescriptions on the cosmic star formation history. Adopting a global-to-local approach, we link signatures seen in global…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-12 Lucie Scharré , Daniele Sorini , Romeel Davé