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Feedback by active galactic nuclei (AGN) is frequently invoked to explain the cut-off of the galaxy luminosity function at the bright end and the absence of cooling flows in galaxy clusters. Meanwhile, there are recent observations of shock…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Brueggen , S. Heinz , E. Roediger , M. Ruszkowski , A. Simionescu

The cooling-flow problem is a long-standing puzzle that has received considerable recent attention, in part because the mechanism that quenches cooling flows in galaxy clusters is likely to be the same mechanism that sharply truncates the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Mark Voit , Megan Donahue

Feedback from AGN jets has been proposed to counteract the catastrophic cooling in many galaxy clusters. However, it is still unclear which physical processes are acting to couple the energy from the bi-directional jets to the ICM. We study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-15 Yi-Hao Chen , Sebastian Heinz , Torsten A. Enßlin

We study the interplay between turbulent heating, mixing, and radiative cooling in an idealized model of cool cluster cores. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are expected to drive turbulence and heat cluster cores. Cooling of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Nilanjan Banerjee , Prateek Sharma

Recent X-ray observations reveal growing evidence for heating by active galactic nuclei (AGN) in clusters and groups of galaxies. AGN outflows play a crucial role in explaining the riddle of cooling flows and the entropy problem in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bruggen , M. Ruszkowski , E. Hallman

Heating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is thought to stabilize cool-core clusters, limiting star formation and cooling flows. We employ radiative magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to model light AGN jet feedback with different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-28 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Feedback from the active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising heating mechanisms to circumvent the cooling-flow problem in galaxy clusters. However, the role of thermal conduction remains unclear. Previous studies have shown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 H. -Y. K. Yang , C. S. Reynolds

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to play a significant role in suppressing cooling flows in cool-core (CC) clusters. Turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM), which may be induced by AGN activity or pre-existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Jia-Lun Li , H. -Y. Karen Yang

It is now widely accepted that heating processes play a fundamental role in galaxy clusters, struggling in an intricate but fascinating `dance' with its antagonist, radiative cooling. Last generation observations, especially X-ray, are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Gaspari , C. Melioli , F. Brighenti , A. D'Ercole

Cool cores of galaxy clusters are thought to be heated by low-power active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose accretion is regulated by feedback. However, the interaction between the hot gas ejected by the AGN and the ambient intracluster medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-01 M. Brueggen , E. Scannapieco

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

[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

Central jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) appear to heat the core regions of the intracluster medium (ICM) in cooling-core galaxy clusters and groups, thereby preventing a cooling catastrophe. However, the physical mechanism(s) by which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Christopher S. Reynolds , Steven A. Balbus , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is a key physical mechanism proposed to regulate star formation, primarily in massive galaxies. In particular, cosmic rays associated with AGN jets have the potential to efficiently suppress cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Kung-Yi Su , Greg L. Bryan , Philip F. Hopkins , Priyamvada Natarajan , Sam B. Ponnada , Razieh Emami , Yue Samuel Lu

We examine atmospheric heating by radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) in distant X-ray clusters by cross correlating clusters selected from the 400 Square Degree (400SD) X-ray Cluster survey with radio sources in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. -J. Ma , B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen , R. Schaffer , A. Vikhlinin

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboured by brightest cluster galaxies is expected to play a fundamental role in regulating cooling in the intracluster medium (ICM). While observations and theory suggest energy within jet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-17 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki , Ewald Puchwein

Jets launched by the supermassive black holes in the centers of cool-core clusters are the most likely heat source to solve the cooling flow problem. One way for this heating to occur is through generation of a turbulent cascade by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-23 Annie Heinrich , Yi-Hao Chen , Sebastian Heinz , Irina Zhuravleva , Eugene Churazov

We study how jets driven by active galactic nuclei influence the cooling flow in Perseus-like galaxy cluster cores with idealised, non-relativistic, hydrodynamical simulations performed with the Eulerian code ATHENA using high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Davide Martizzi , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Drummond Fielding

Recent XRISM observations suggest that gas mixing induced by sloshing contributes to core heating. We systematically investigate the suppression of cooling flows in galaxy cluster cool cores through three-dimensional hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Yutaka Fujita , Tomoaki Matsumoto , Keiichi Wada

We present the first implementation of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in the form of momentum driven jets in an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) cosmological resimulation of a galaxy cluster. The jets are powered by gas accretion onto…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier