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Extended warm and cold gas nebulae, with complex morphologies and kinematics, have been observed in the centres of cool-core galaxy clusters. Their origin within the hot intracluster medium (ICM) is still puzzling, and among many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Stefano Sotira , Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti

Conduction as a mechanism for explaining the disrupted cooling-flow in galaxy clusters has been mostly discounted, as the process is inefficient at transporting heat all the way from the cluster into the core. However, thermal conduction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Jennifer Stafford , Sebastian Heinz , Mateusz Ruszkowski , Torsten Enßlin , Yi-Hao Chen

AGN jets are thought to be vital ingredients in galaxy evolution through the action of kinetic feedback; however, how narrow, relativistic outflows couple to galaxies remains an open question. Jet deceleration, which is often attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-11 Talia M. O'Shea , Sebastian Heinz , Melinda Soares-Furtado , Zsofi Igo , Andrea Merloni

Coupling between relativistic jets launched by accreting supermassive black holes and the surrounding gaseous media is a vital ingredient in galaxy evolution models. To constrain the environments in which this feedback takes place over…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-29 Grayson C. Petter , Ryan C. Hickox , Leah K. Morabito , David M. Alexander

We perform high-resolution (15-30 pc) adaptive mesh simulations to study the impact of momentum-driven AGN feedback in cool-core clusters, focusing in this paper on the formation of cold clumps. The feedback is jet-driven with an energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan

Multiwavelength data indicate that the X-ray emitting plasma in the cores of galaxy clusters is not cooling catastrophically. To large extent, cooling is offset by heating due to active galactic nuclei (AGN) via jets. The cool-core…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Gaspari , M. Ruszkowski , P. Sharma

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

The cooling flow problem is one of the central problems in galaxy clusters, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is considered to play a key role in offsetting cooling. However, how AGN jets heat and suppress cooling flows remains…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-08 Fulai Guo , Xiaodong Duan , Ye-Fei Yuan

I review the influence jets and the bubbles they inflate might have on their ambient gas as they operate through a negative jet feedback mechanism (JFM). I discuss astrophysical systems where jets are observed to influence the ambient gas,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Noam Soker

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

Jets powered by active galactic nuclei appear impressively stable compared with their terrestrial and laboratory counterparts-they can be traced from their origin to distances exceeding their injection radius by up to a billion times.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-18 Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Serguei S. Komissarov

Several galaxy clusters are known to present multiple and misaligned pairs of cavities seen in X-rays, as well as twisted kiloparsec-scale jets at radio wavelengths. It suggests that the AGN precessing jets play a role in the formation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-02 D. Falceta-Goncalves , A. Caproni , Z. Abraham , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , D. M. Teixeira

We study the feedback from an AGN on stellar formation within its host galaxy, mainly using one high resolution numerical simulation of the jet propagation within the interstellar medium of an early-type galaxy. In particular, we show that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Tortora , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , S. Kaviraj , J. Silk , A. D. Romeo , U. Becciani

High resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the hot gas in galaxy clusters has shown that the gas is not cooling to low temperatures at the predicted rates of hundreds to thousands of solar masses per year. X-ray images have revealed giant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. R. McNamara , P. E. J. Nulsen

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

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising mechanisms for suppressing cooling flows in cool-core clusters. However, the composition of AGN jets and bubbles remains uncertain; they could be thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yen-Hsing Lin , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Ellis R. Owen

Over cosmic time, galaxies grow through the hierarchical merging of smaller galaxies. However, the bright region of the galaxy luminosity function is incompatible with the simplest version of hierarchical merging, and it is believed that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Y. Wagner , Geoffrey V. Bicknell

Simulations of feedback by jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the past mostly focused on the interaction at large scales as the circumgalactic medium or intra-cluster medium for clusters of galaxies. Only in recent years, simulations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-10 V. Gaibler