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We study the interaction of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and a multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM), in simulations including explicit stellar feedback, multi-phase cooling, accretion-disk winds, and Compton heating. We…

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In high-mass microquasars (HMMQ), strong interactions between jets and stellar winds at binary system scales could occur. In order to explore this possibility, we have performed numerical 2-dimensional simulations of jets crossing the dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Perucho , V. Bosch-Ramon

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inject large amounts of energy into their host galaxies and surrounding environment, shaping their properties and evolution. In particular, AGN jets inflate cosmic-ray lobes, which can rise buoyantly as light…

Dense and cold clouds seem to populate the broad line region surrounding the central black hole in AGNs. These clouds could interact with the AGN jet base and this could have observational consequences. We want to study the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Anabella T. Araudo , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Gustavo E. Romero

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

We find that the power of jets that inflate bubble pairs in cooling flow clusters of galaxies correlates with the size of the inner region where the entropy profile is flat, as well as with the gas mass in that region and the entropy floor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-22 Fabio Pizzolato , Tavish Kelly , Noam Soker

We describe a new tool for studying the structure and physical characteristics of ultracompact AGN jets and their surroundings with microarcsecond precision. This tool is based on the frequency dependence of the light curves observed for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. -P. Macquart , L. E. H. Godfrey , H. E. Bignall , J. A. Hodgson

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets, powered by gas accretion onto their central supermassive black hole (SMBH), are unique laboratories for studying the physics of matter and elementary particles in extreme conditions that…

A number of observations have revealed atomic and/or molecular lines in active galaxies hosting jets and outflows. Line widths indicate outward motions of hundreds to few thousands of kilometers per second. They appear associated to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Manel Perucho

We analyse a hydrodynamical simulation model for the recurrent heating of the central intracluster medium (ICM) by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Besides the self-gravity of the dark matter and gas components, our approach includes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

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

In this work, we use hydrodynamical simulations to explore the effects of kinetic AGN jet feedback on the progression and outcome of the major merger of two isolated, gas-rich galaxies. We present simulations that use the moving-mesh code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-19 Rosie Y. Talbot , Debora Sijacki , Martin A. Bourne

The observable characteristics of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are mainly determined by the jet propagation within the disk. In the massive collapsar scenario, we consider that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Yun-Feng Wei , Tong Liu , Bao-Quan Huang

We use zoom simulations to show how merger-driven disruption of the gas disc in a galaxy provides its central active galactic nucleus (AGN) with fuel to drive outflows that entrain and expel a significant fraction of the circumgalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 Jonathan J. Davies , Andrew Pontzen , Robert A. Crain

Highly collimated supersonic jets are observed to emerge from a wide variety of astrophysical objects, ranging from Active Nuclei of Galaxies (AGN's) to Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) within our own Galaxy. Despite their different physical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

The interactions between jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their stellar environments significantly influence jet dynamics and emission characteristics. In low-power jets, such as those in Fanaroff-Riley I (FR I) galaxies, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-05 Gaëtan Fichet de Clairfontaine , Manel Perucho , José María Martí , Yuri Kovalev

What causes the dichotomy between very powerful and very weak radio emission from AGNs? Perhaps the engines are the same but the jets get disrupted by dense ISM in radio-quiet objects, or else the engines are intrinsically different with…

Quasars with flat radio spectra and one-sided, arc-second scale, ~100 mJy GHz radio jets are found to have similar scale X-ray jets in about 60% of such objects, even in short 5 to 10 ks Chandra observations. Jets emit in the GHz band via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Daniel A. Schwartz

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can strongly impact the host galaxies by driving high-velocity winds that impart substantial energy and momentum to the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we study the impact of these winds…

It is suggested that the outflowing plasma in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is inhomogeneous and consists of separate clouds. These clouds are strongly magnetized and move away from the central engine at relativistic speeds. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 V. V. Usov , M. V. Smolsky