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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are objects located in the heart of galaxies which emit powerful and complex radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Understanding AGN has become a topic of interest due to their importance in galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-01 Henry Best , Matthew O'Dowd , Joshua Fagin , James H. H. Chan , Bridget Ierace

(Context) Central active galactic nuclei (AGN) are supposed to play a key role in the evolution of their host galaxies. In particular, the dynamical and physical properties of the gas core must be affected by the injected energy. (Aims) Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sebastien Peirani , Scott Kay , Joe Silk

Merger-remnant galaxies with kpc-scale separation dual active galactic nuclei (AGNs) should be widespread as a consequence of galaxy mergers and triggered gas accretion onto supermassive black holes, yet very few dual AGNs have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 Julia M. Comerford , Brian F. Gerke , Daniel Stern , Michael C. Cooper , Benjamin J. Weiner , Jeffrey A. Newman , Kristin Madsen , R. Scott Barrows

In order to understand the physical mechanisms at work during the formation of massive early-type galaxies, we performed six zoomed hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of halos in the mass range 4.3 10^12 < M_vir < 8.0 10^13 M_sun at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yohan Dubois , Raphaël Gavazzi , Sébastien Peirani , Joseph Silk

Axions and axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical particles that occur in extensions of the Standard Model and are candidates for cold dark matter. They could be detected through their oscillations into photons in the presence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Manuel Meyer , James Davies , Julian Kuhlmann

Over the last five decades, AGN studies have produced a number of spectacular examples of synergies and multifaceted approaches in astrophysics. The field of AGN research now spans the entire spectral range and covers more than twelve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrei P. Lobanov , J. Anton Zensus

Active galactic nucleus (AGN)-driven gas outflows are one of the best tracers of AGN feedback in action, as these powerful outflows expel/heat or compress the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM), thus quenching or enhancing star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Ruisong Xia , Chen Qin , Huynh Anh N. Le , Yongquan Xue , Shifu Zhu , Mengqiu Huang , Hao Liu , Xiaozhi Lin

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

Large-scale outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) can have a profound influence on their host galaxies. The outflow properties themselves depend sensitively on the history of AGN energy injection during the lifetime of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Kastytis Zubovas , Jonas Bialopetravičius , Monika Kazlauskaitė

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is one of the most important mechanisms in galaxy evolution. It is usually found in massive galaxies and regulates star formation. Although dwarf galaxies are assumed to be regulated by supernova…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are known as sources of high energy gamma-rays. The emission probably results from non-thermal radiation of relativistic jets belonging to the AGN. Earlier investigations of these processes have suggested that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Schuster , M. Pohl , R. Schlickeiser

Physical processes such as re-ignition, enhancement, and fading of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are not entirely understood because the timeline of these events is expected to last many years. However, it is well known that the differences…

Continuum and emission-line variability of active galactic nuclei provides a powerful probe of microarcsecond scale structures in the central regions of these sources. In this contribution, we review basic concepts and methodologies used in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Bradley M. Peterson

Large-scale outflows driven by AGNs are an important element of galaxy evolution. Detailed analysis of their properties allows us to probe the activity history of the galactic nucleus and, potentially, other properties of the host galaxy. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Kastytis Zubovas , Matas Tartėnas

This is the second paper of our series of works of studying the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing two-dimensional high-resolution hydrodynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Doosoo Yoon , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Ya-Ping Li , Luca Ciotti

We present results from a new set of 30 cosmological simulations of galaxy clusters, including the effects of radiative cooling, star formation, supernova feedback, black hole growth and AGN feedback. We first demonstrate that our AGN model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Simon R. Pike , Scott T. Kay , Richard D. A. Newton , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) release huge amounts of energy in their host galaxies, which, if the coupling is sufficient, can affect the interstellar medium (ISM). We use a high-resolution simulation ($\sim6$ pc) of a z $\sim2$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-27 Orianne Roos , Stéphanie Juneau , Frédéric Bournaud , Jared Gabor

Dust emission, an important diagnostic of star formation and ISM mass throughout the Universe, can be powered by sources unrelated to ongoing star formation. In the framework of the DustPedia project we have set out to disentangle the…

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess

With the coincident detection of a gamma-ray flare and a neutrino from the blazar TXS 0506+056, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been put into focus as possible sources of the diffuse neutrino flux. We present a space and time-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Mario R. Hoerbe , Paul J. Morris , Garret Cotter , Julia Becker Tjus