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Massive large-scale AGN outflows are an important element of galaxy evolution, being a way through which the AGN can affect most of the host galaxy. However, outflows evolve on timescales much longer than typical AGN episode durations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Kastytis Zubovas

Different mechanisms can drive outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGN), but it is often unclear which mechanism dominates, if any. To quantify the impact of AGN feedback on galaxy evolution, the driving mechanism of outflows must be better…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-01 Dominika Wylezalek , Raffaella Morganti

We analyse the 2-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the stars as well as molecular and ionised gas in the central few hundred parsecs of 5 active and 5 matched inactive galaxies. The equivalent widths of the Br-gamma line indicate…

Establishing the role of active galactic nuclei (AGN) during the formation of galaxies remains one of the greatest challenges of galaxy formation theory. Towards addressing this, we summarise our recent work investigating: (1) the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-01 C. M. Harrison , S. J. Molyneux , J. Scholtz , M. E. Jarvis

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is one of the most important mechanisms in galaxy evolution. It is usually found in massive galaxies and regulates star formation. Although dwarf galaxies are assumed to be regulated by supernova…

We study the spatially resolved star formation, gas ionisation, and outflow properties of 1813 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the MaNGA survey, which we classify into infrared (IR), broad-line (BL), narrow-line (NL), and radio (RD) AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 Gaoxiang Jin , Guinevere Kauffmann , Y. Sophia Dai , Martin J. Hardcastle , Bohan Yue

While in massive galaxies active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback plays an important role, the role of AGN feedback is still under debate in dwarf galaxies. With well spatially resolved data obtained from the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Zhiyuan Zheng , Yong Shi , Fuyan Bian , Xiaoling Yu , Junfeng Wang , Jianhang Chen , Xin Li , Qiusheng Gu

The driving force behind outflows, often invoked to understand the correlation between the supermassive black holes powering active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxy properties, remains uncertain. We provide new insights into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Payel Nandi , C. S. Stalin , D. J. Saikia

Quasar feedback outflows are commonly invoked to drive gas out of galaxies in the early gas-rich epoch to terminate growth of galaxies. Here we present simulations that show that AGN feedback may drive not only gas but also stars out of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Kastytis Zubovas , Sergei Nayakshin , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

Outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) seem to be common and are thought to be important from a variety of perspectives: as an agent of chemical enhancement of the interstellar and intergalactic media, as an agent of angular momentum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajib Ganguly , Michael S. Brotherton

AGN-driven outflows are considered as one of the processes driving the co-evolution of supermassive black holes with their host galaxies. We present integral field spectroscopy of six Type 2 AGNs at z < 0.1, which are selected as AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Rongxin Luo , Jong-Hak Woo , Jaejin Shin , Daeun Kang , Hyun-Jin Bae , Marios Karouzos

We show, using global 3D grid-based hydrodynamical simulations, that Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) result in considerable feedback of energy and momentum into the interstellar medium (ISM) of the host galaxy.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Y. Wagner , M. Umemura , G. V. Bicknell

We study outflows in 130 galaxies with -22<MUV<-16 at z=3-9 identified in JWST NIRSpec and NIRCam WFSS data taken by the ERO, CEERS, FRESCO, GLASS, and JADES programs. We identify 30 out of the 130 galaxies with broad components of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-31 Yi Xu , Masami Ouchi , Kimihiko Nakajima , Yuichi Harikane , Yuki Isobe , Yoshiaki Ono , Hiroya Umeda , Yechi Zhang

Observations of emission lines in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) often find fast (~1000 km s^-1) outflows extending to kiloparsec scales, seen in ionised, neutral atomic and molecular gas. In this work we present radiative transfer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Alexander J. Richings , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Jonathan Stern

We present 3D models of biconical outflows combined with a thin dust plane for investigating the physical properties of the ionized gas outflows and their effect on the observed gas kinematics in type 2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-20 Hyun-Jin Bae , Jong-Hak Woo

(abridged) Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at close to the Eddington rate can influence the host galaxy via powerful winds. Theoretical models of such winds can explain observational correlations between SMBHs and their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 K. Zubovas , M. Tartėnas , M. A. Bourne

Small-scale winds driven from accretion discs surrounding active galactic nuclei (AGN) are expected to launch kpc-scale outflows into their host galaxies. However, the ways in which the structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) affects the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-19 Samuel Ruthven Ward , Tiago Costa , Chris M. Harrison , Vincenzo Mainieri

In the last decade, observations have accumulated on gas outflows in galaxies, and in particular massive molecular ones. The mass outflow rate is estimated between 1-5 times the star formation rate. For the highest maximal velocities, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 F. Combes

The study of the conditions and the kinematics of the gas in the central region of AGN provides important information on the relevance of feedback effects connected to the nuclear activity. Quantifying these effects is key for constraining…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Raffaella Morganti , Joanna Holt , Clive Tadhunter , Tom Oosterloo

We investigate the presence and origin of neutral gas outflows and inflows in 13 post-starburst (PSB) and quiescent galaxies at redshifts 1.8 $\leq$ z $\leq$ 4.6, using JWST NIRSpec spectroscopy from the EXCELS survey. NaD absorption…