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Mechanical feedback via Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets in the centres of galaxy groups and clusters is a crucial ingredient in current models of galaxy formation and cluster evolution. Jet feedback is believed to regulate gas cooling and…

Relativistic jets launched from stellar-mass compact objects embedded in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) can produce nonthermal emission upon successfully breaking out of the disk. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

Massive quiescent galaxies in the young universe are expected to be quenched rapidly, but it is unclear whether they all experience starbursts before quenching and what physical mechanism drives rapid quenching. We study 14 massive…

Galaxy environment plays a crucial role in quenching star formation in dwarf galaxies. In Milky Way (MW)-like environments, dwarf satellite quenching is primarily driven by ram pressure stripping (RPS), the direct removal of satellite gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Jingyao Zhu , Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan , Mary E. Putman

(Abridged) We study the interaction of relativistic jets from AGNs with the ISM in their host galaxy, using a series of Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulations of the evolution of the interaction between the cocoon produced by the jet with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk

Understanding heating processes in galaxy clusters is essential for predicting the regulation of radiative cooling and star formation, and for clarifying the mechanisms underlying active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in cool-core…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Moun Meenakshi , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Thomas Berlok

Negative feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the leading mechanism for the quenching of massive galaxies in the vast majority of modern galaxy evolution models. However, direct observational evidence that AGN feedback causes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Samuel Ruthven Ward , Chris Harrison , Tiago Costa , Vincenzo Mainieri

The interplay between radiative cooling of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and feedback heating governs the evolution of the universe's most massive galaxies. This paper presents simulations of feedback processes in massive galaxies showing…

Active galactic nucleus (AGNs) feedback is widely accepted as the key mechanism to suppress cooling flows in galaxy clusters. However, the dependence of heating efficiency on jet properties is not fully understood. In this work, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Tzu-Wei Tsai , Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang

We explore the effect of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback from central galaxies on their satellites by comparing two sets of cosmological zoom-in runs of 27 halos with masses ranging from $10^{12}$ to $10^{13.4}$ solar masses at z=0,…

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

Observations show a prevalence of high redshift galaxies with large stellar masses and predominantly passive stellar populations. A variety of processes have been suggested that could reduce the star formation in such galaxies to observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Robert Feldmann , Lucio Mayer

There exist strong evidence supporting the co-evolution of central supermassive black holes and their host galaxies. It is however still unclear what the exact role of nuclear activity, in the form of accretion onto these supermassive black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-17 Marios Karouzos , Markos Trichas , Myungshin Im , Matthew Malkan , the AKARI-NEP team

Jets from active galaxies propagate from the central black hole out to the radio lobes on scales of hundreds of kiloparsecs. The jets may encounter giant stars with strong stellar winds and produce observable signatures. For strong winds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-31 Martin Huarte-Espinosa , Eric G. Blackman , Alex Hubbard , Adam Frank

Jets powered by AGN in the early Universe ($z \gtrsim 6$) have the potential to not only define the trajectories of the first-forming massive galaxies but to enable the accelerated growth of their associated SMBHs. Under typical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-16 Thomas Connor , Eduardo Bañados , Nico Cappelluti , Adi Foord

We examine the connection between the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and the quenching and morphological evolution of central galaxies in the EAGLE and IllustrisTNG simulations. The simulations yield very different median CGM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-18 Jonathan J. Davies , Robert A. Crain , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Joop Schaye

The growth of supermassive black holes, especially the associated state of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), is generally believed to be the key step in regulating star formation in massive galaxies. As the fuel of star formation, the cold gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-30 Hong Guo , Michael G. Jones , Jing Wang

Winds and jets are symbiotic when the accretion rate is low, according to black hole accretion theory. Both components are potentially important for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, but previous works typically include only jets with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

Galaxy clusters contain a hot, diffuse, and weakly magnetized plasma known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In this environment, how thermal conduction influences plasma dynamics and the conditions under which it operates efficiently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Nana Matsuno , Takaaki Yokoyama , Mami Machida

We compare the semi-analytic models of galaxy formation of Fu et al. (2010), which track the evolution of the radial profiles of atomic and molecular gas in galaxies, with gas fraction scaling relations derived from the COLD GASS survey…

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