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Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are powerful drivers of galaxy evolution, depositing energy and momentum into the circumgalactic and intracluster medium (CGM/ICM) and regulating gas cooling and star formation. We investigate the dynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-30 Chenze Dong , Abednego Wiliardy , Kentaro Nagamine , Yuri Oku , Akira Mizuta , Boon Kiat Oh , Renyue Cen

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is essential in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation, yet its implementation has to rely on subgrid models due to limited resolution. We present a novel subgrid jet-launching method for galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 N. Maragkakis , M. A. Bourne , C. Power , F. Huško , A. Ludlow , S. Shabala

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has become a major component in simulations of galaxy evolution, in particular for massive galaxies. AGN jets have been shown to provide a large amount of energy and are capable of quenching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause , Joseph Silk

We use SWIFT, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code, to simulate the evolution of bubbles inflated by active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets, as well as their interactions with the ambient intracluster medium (ICM). These jets inflate lobes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey

Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are expected to heat the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM). We investigate how the interaction between jets and the ICM appears in high-resolution X-ray observations using mock X-ray observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Mahiro Shirotori , Yutaka Fujita

We report on a series of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of active galactic nucleus (AGN) jet propagation in realistic models of magnetized galaxy clusters. We are primarily interested in the details of energy transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. M. O'Neill , T. W. Jones

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

We investigate the interplay between jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and the surrounding InterStellar Medium (ISM) through full 3D, high resolution, Adaptive Mesh Refinement simulations performed with the FLASH code. We follow the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-17 S. Cielo , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , A. V. Macciò , A. D. Romeo , J. Silk

We investigate the interaction between active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets and the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. Specifically, we study the efficiency with which jets can drive sound waves into the ICM. Previous works focused…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-06 Christopher J. Bambic , Christopher S. Reynolds

We present a pair of 3-d magnetohydrodynamical simulations of intermittent jets from a central active galactic nucleus (AGN) in a galaxy cluster extracted from a high resolution cosmological simulation. The selected cluster was chosen as an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Peter Mendygral , Tom Jones , Klaus Dolag

While there is overwhelming observational evidence of AGN-driven jets in galaxy clusters and groups, if and how the jet energy is delivered to the ambient medium remains unanswered. Here we perform very high resolution AGN jet simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

To investigate the differences in mechanical feedback from radio-loud and radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the host galaxy, we perform 3D AMR hydrodynamic simulations of wide angle, radio-quiet winds with different inclinations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Zachary Dugan , Volker Gaibler , Joseph Silk

Shocks in jets and hot spots of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are one prominent class of possible sources of very high energy cosmic ray particles (above 10^18eV). Extrapolating their spectrum to their plausible injection energy from some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Athina Meli , Peter L. Biermann

Jets launched by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to play a significant role in shaping the properties of galaxies and provide an energetically viable mechanism through which galaxies can become quenched. Here we present a novel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-30 Rosie Y. Talbot , Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the cores of galaxy clusters have the potential to be a major contributor to the energy budget of the intracluster medium (ICM). To study the dependence of the interaction between the AGN jets and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John C. Vernaleo , Christopher S. Reynolds

(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

[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

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered jets can accelerate cosmic ray electrons, leading to the observed radio synchrotron emission. To simulate this emission, jet dynamics in galaxy clusters must be coupled to electron spectral modelling.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Léna Jlassi , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Maria Werhahn , Joseph Whittingham , Philipp Girichidis

Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations show that some active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets exhibit bending even at parsec scales. The nature of bending is comprehensively analysed only for a small number of individual AGN, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 V. A. Makeev , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev
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