English
Related papers

Related papers: Modeling Cosmic Rays at AGN Jet-Driven Shock Front…

200 papers

The inefficiency of star formation in massive elliptical galaxies is widely believed to be caused by the interactions of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) with the surrounding gas. Achieving a sufficiently rapid reddening of moderately…

This is the fourth paper of our series investigating the effects of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in the evolution of an elliptical galaxy using the {\it MACER} framework. While previous works considered only AGN radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-01 Minhang Guo , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Bocheng Zhu

Numerical simulations of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback in cool-core galaxy clusters have successfully avoided classical cooling flows, but often produce too much cold gas. We perform adaptive mesh simulations that include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Yuan Li , Greg L. Bryan , Mateusz Ruszkowski , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea , Megan Donahue

Several lines of argument support the existence of a link between activity at the nuclei of galaxies, in the form of an accreting supermassive black hole, and star-formation activity in these galaxies. The exact nature of this link is still…

Galactic outflows, driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN), play a crucial role in galaxy formation and in the self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes (BHs). AGN feedback couples to and affects gas, rather than stars, and in many,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-10 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Gohar Dashyan

Feedback heating from AGN in massive galaxies and galaxy clusters can be thought of as a naturally occurring control system which plays a significant role in regulating both star formation rates and the X-ray luminosity of the surrounding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-04 Edward C. D. Pope

We present a hybrid active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback model that features three accretion disc states (the thick, thin, and slim discs at low, moderate, and super-Eddington accretion rates, respectively), and two feedback modes:…

We study stellar assembly and feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) around the epoch of peak star formation (1<z<2), by comparing hydrodynamic simulations to rest-frame UV-optical galaxy colours from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3)…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are believed to regulate star formation inside their host galaxies through "AGN feedback". We summarise our on-going study of luminous AGN (z~0.2-3; L_(AGN,bol)>~10^43 erg/s), which is designed to search for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 C. M. Harrison , D. M. Alexander , D. J. Rosario , J. Scholtz , F. Stanley

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large distances. Here, we explore the direct effects that AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Aura Obreja , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to be the most promising solution to the cooling flow problem in cool-core clusters, though how exactly the jet energy is transformed into heat is a subject of debate. Dissipation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Shiang-Chih Wang , H. -Y. Karen Yang

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

In these proceedings I briefly: (1) review the impact (or "feedback") that active galactic nuclei (AGN) are predicted to have on their host galaxies and larger scale environment, (2) review the observational evidence for or against these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 C. M. Harrison

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

The early growth of black holes (BHs) in atomic-cooling halos is likely influenced by feedback on the surrounding gas. While the effects of radiative feedback are well-documented, mechanical feedback, particularly from AGN jets, has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-20 Kung-Yi Su , Greg Bryan , Zoltán Haiman

The role of active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback in dwarf galaxies remains poorly understood, with conventional wisdom suggesting it primarily suppresses star formation. Using high-resolution MACER3D simulations that directly resolve the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-27 Tingfang Su , Suoqing Ji , Feng Yuan , Haojie Xia , Yuxuan Zou

Accurate modeling of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback, especially due to relativistic jets, is crucial for understanding the cool-core problem in galaxy clusters. We present a new subgrid method to model accretion onto and feedback…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-24 Ying-He Celeste Lü , Paul M. Ricker

Supermassive black hole accretion and feedback play central role in the evolution of galaxies, groups, and clusters. I review how AGN feedback is tightly coupled with the formation of multiphase gas and the newly probed chaotic cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 M. Gaspari

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

Jets emanating from active galactic nuclei (AGN) represent some of the most formidable particle accelerators in the universe, thereby emerging as viable candidates responsible for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). If…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Olmo Piana , Hung-Yi Pu