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The frequency of compact object interactions in AGN discs is naturally tied to the number of objects embedded within it. We investigate the evolution of black holes in the nuclear stellar cluster on inclined orbits to the AGN disc by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Connar Rowan , Henry Whitehead , Gaia Fabj , Philip Kirkeberg , Martin E. Pessah , Bence Kocsis

Growing supermassive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN) release energy with the potential to alter their host galaxies and larger-scale environment; a process named "AGN feedback". Feedback is a required component of galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-15 Chris M. Harrison , Cristina Ramos Almeida

Outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to explain the co-evolution of AGN and their host galaxies, and the scaling relations between the central black hole mass and the bulge velocity dispersion. Nuclear winds are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 A. Luminari , E. Piconcelli , F. Tombesi , L. Zappacosta , F. Fiore , L. Piro , F. Vagnetti

We derive here a relatively simple expression for the total wind mass loss rates in QSOs within the accretion disk wind scenario. We show that the simple expression derived here for QSO disk wind mass loss rate is in very good agreement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-04 Nicolas A. Pereyra

The deposition of mechanical feedback from a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) into the surrounding galaxy occurs via broad-line winds which must carry mass and radial momentum as well as energy. The effect…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Ena Choi , Luca Ciotti , Gregory S. Novak , Daniel Proga

Based on two-dimensional high resolution hydrodynamic numerical simulation, we study the mechanical and radiative feedback effects from the central AGN on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy. Physical processes such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhaoming Gan , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti , Gregory S. Novak

Black hole accretion discs can produce powerful outflowing plasma (disc winds), seen as blue-shifted absorption lines in stellar and supermassive systems. These winds in Quasars have an essential role in controlling galaxy formation across…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-07 Ryota Tomaru , Chris Done , Junjie Mao

The actual mechanism(s) powering galactic outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still a matter of debate. At least two physical models have been considered in the literature: wind shocks and radiation pressure on dust. Here we provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian , N. Arakawa

It is commonly believed that the optical/UV and X-ray emissions in luminous AGN are produced in an accretion disk and an embedded hot corona respectively. The inverse Compton scattering of disk photons by hot electrons in the corona can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-05 B. F. Liu , R. E. Taam , E. Qiao , W. Yuan

Recent advances in general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic modeling of jets offer unprecedented insights into the inner workings of accreting black holes that power the jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and other accretion systems. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Jonathan C. McKinney , Ramesh Narayan

Relativistic Fe K emission lines from accretion disks and from disk winds encode key information about black holes, and their accretion and feedback mechanisms. We show that these two processes can in principle produce indistinguishable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 M. L. Parker , G. A. Matzeu , J. H. Matthews , M. J. Middleton , T. Dauser , J. Jiang , A. M. Joyce

Radiation, winds and jets from the active nucleus of a massive galaxy can interact with its interstellar medium leading to ejection or heating of the gas. This can terminate star formation in the galaxy and stifle accretion onto the black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. C. Fabian

The cosmic history of supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth is important for understanding galaxy evolution, reionization and the physics of accretion. Recent NuSTAR, Swift-BAT and \textit{Chandra} hard X-ray surveys have provided new…

Previous MHD simulations have shown that wind must exist in black hole hot accretion flows. In this paper, we continue our study by investigating the detailed properties of wind, such as mass flux and poloidal speed, and the mechanism of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Feng Yuan , Zhaoming Gan , Ramesh Narayan , Aleksander Sadowski , Defu Bu , Xue-Ning Bai

We conducted 3D-MHD simulations to investigate the feedback processes in the central 1kpc scale of galaxies hosting both active star formation (SF) and an AGN wind. Our simulations naturally generated a turbulent and clumpy interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 William E. Clavijo-Bohórquez , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Claudio Melioli

We employ the Delphi semi-analytical model to study the impact of black hole growth on high-redshift galaxies, both in terms of the observed UV luminosity and of the star formation rate. To do this, firstly, we assess the contribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-23 Olmo Piana , Pratika Dayal , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

Wind is believed to be widespread in various black hole accretion flows. However, unlike the wind from thin disks, which have substantial observational evidence, the wind from hot accretion flows is difficult to observe due to the extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-30 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan

We develop semi-empirical models of the supermassive black hole and active galactic nucleus (AGN) populations, which incorporate the black hole growth implied by the observed AGN luminosity function assuming a radiative efficiency \epsilon,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Francesco Shankar , David H. Weinberg , Jordi Miralda-Escude'

Using the SWIFT simulation code we study different forms of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback in idealized galaxy groups and clusters. We first present a physically motivated model of black hole (BH) spin evolution and a numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-16 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey , Joop Schaye , Folkert S. J. Nobels , Matthieu Schaller