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The energy released by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the form of radiation, winds, or radio plasma jets, is known to impact on the surrounding interstellar medium. The result of these processes, known as AGN (negative) feedback, is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Raffaella Morganti

We collate active galactic nuclei (AGN) with reported detections of both relativistic reflection and ultra-fast outflows. By comparing the inclination of the inner disc from reflection with the line-of-sight velocity of the outflow, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 M. L. Parker , D. J. K. Buisson , J. Jiang , L. C. Gallo , E. Kara , G. A. Matzeu , D. J. Walton

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) vary in their brightness across all wavelengths. Moreover, longer wavelength ultraviolet - optical continuum light curves appear to be delayed with respect to shorter wavelength light curves. A simple way to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 David Starkey , Keith Horne , Carolin Villforth

In this review I concentrate exclusively on models for the large-scale structure created by jet flows in AGN. I briefly mention models for the evolution and emission of these objects and how they can also be applied to microquasars. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Christian R. Kaiser

We have investigated the gas content of a sample of several hundred AGN host galaxies at z$<$1 and compared it with a sample of inactive galaxies, matched in bins of stellar mass and redshift. Gas masses have been inferred from the dust…

Winds launched at the scale of the accretion disc or dusty torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to drive energy-conserving outflows that shape galaxy evolution. The key signature of such outflows, the presence of a hot ($T…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Ivan Almeida , Tiago Costa , Chris M. Harrison , Samuel R. Ward

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is widely viewed as the most promising solution to the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters, yet previous models prescribe jet properties inconsistent with accretion physics. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Aoyun He , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Minhang Guo , Yuan Li , Haiguang Xu , Ming Sun , Haojie Xia , Yuanyuan Zhao

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is expected to impact the amount of cold gas in galaxies by driving strong galactic winds, by preventing external gas inflows, or by changing the thermodynamical state of the gas. We use molecular gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Hassen M. Yesuf , Luis C. Ho

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), such as Seyfert galaxies, quasars, etc., show light variations in all wavelength bands, with various amplitude and in many time scales. The variations usually look erratic, not periodic nor purely random. Many…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chatief Kunjaya , Putra Mahasena , Kiki Vierdayanti , Stefani Herlie

Due to the compactness active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are still unresolved with optical observations. However, structure and physical conditions of the matter in their central parts are especially important to study the processes of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-31 Elena Shablovinskaya , Viktor Afanasiev

Optically thick accretion disks are considered to be important ingredients of luminous AGN. The claim of their existence is well supported by observations and recent years brought some progress in understanding of their dynamics. However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Czerny

Disks of gas accreting onto supermassive black holes, powering active galactic nuclei (AGN), can capture stars from nuclear star clusters or form stars in situ via gravitational instability. The density and thermal conditions of these disks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-26 Alexander J. Dittmann , Adam S. Jermyn , Matteo Cantiello

We present a new implementation for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback through small-scale, ultra-fast winds in the moving-mesh hydrodynamic code AREPO. The wind is injected by prescribing mass, momentum and energy fluxes across a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Tiago Costa , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Modeling the spectral energy distribution (SED) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a very important role in constraining modern cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Here, we utilize an advanced supermassive black hole (SMBH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-23 Tong Su , Qi Guo , Erlin Qiao , Wenxiang Pei , Luis C. Ho , Cedric G. Lacey

We use quasi-simultaneous near-infrared (near-IR) and optical spectroscopy from four observing runs to study the continuum around 1 micron in 23 well-known broad-emission line active galactic nuclei (AGN). We show that, after correcting the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hermine Landt , Martin Elvis , Martin J. Ward , Misty C. Bentz , Kirk T. Korista , Margarita Karovska

We study in detail the properties of the accreting corona model for active galactic nuclei and galactic black holes. In this model the fraction of the energy liberated in the corona at a given radius is calculated from the global parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bozena Czerny

Rapid, large amplitude variability at optical to X-ray wavelengths is now seen in an increasing number of Seyfert galaxies and luminous quasars. The variations imply a global change in accretion power, but are too rapid to be communicated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

Several arguments suggest that stochastic condensation of cold gas and its accretion onto the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) is essential for active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback to work in the most massive galaxies that lie at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-10 Deovrat Prasad , Prateek Sharma , Arif Babul

Based on our previous modeling of AGN feedback in isolated elliptical galaxies (Gan et al. 2014) using the MACER (Massive AGN Controlled Ellipticals Resolved) code, we extend and improve the model to include rotation, to limit star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Zhaoming Gan , Luca Ciotti , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Feng Yuan

We discuss properties of thermal and hybrid (thermal/non-thermal) electron-positron plasmas in the pair and energy equilibria. Various accretion disc-corona models, recently proposed to explain properties of galactic as well as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juri Poutanen