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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

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 (AGNs) feedback is widely accepted as the key mechanism to suppress cooling flows in galaxy clusters. However, the dependence of heating efficiency on jet properties is not fully understood. In this work, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 Tzu-Wei Tsai , Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang

We compute 3D gasdynamical models of jet outflows from the central AGN, that carry mass as well as energy to the hot gas in galaxy clusters and groups. These flows have many attractive attributes for solving the cooling flow problem: why…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Gaspari , C. Melioli , F. Brighenti , A. D'Ercole

This paper summarizes our recent works of studying AGN feedback in an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing high-resolution hydrodynamical numerical simulations. Bondi radius is resolved and the mass accretion rate of the black hole is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-17 Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , DooSoo Yoon , Ya-Ping Li , Luca Ciotti , Zhao-Ming Gan , Luis C. Ho , Fulai Guo

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to play a significant role in suppressing cooling flows in cool-core (CC) clusters. Turbulence in the intracluster medium (ICM), which may be induced by AGN activity or pre-existing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 Jia-Lun Li , H. -Y. Karen Yang

Feedback driven by jets from active galactic nuclei is believed to be responsible for reducing cooling flows in cool-core galaxy clusters. We use simulations to model feedback from hydrodynamic jets in isolated halos. While the jet…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback is a key physical mechanism proposed to regulate star formation, primarily in massive galaxies. In particular, cosmic rays associated with AGN jets have the potential to efficiently suppress cooling…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 Kung-Yi Su , Greg L. Bryan , Philip F. Hopkins , Priyamvada Natarajan , Sam B. Ponnada , Razieh Emami , Yue Samuel Lu

In this paper, we present a new implementation of feedback due to active galactic nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. We assume that a fraction of jet energy, which is generated by an AGN, is transferred to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-02 Takashi Okamoto , Rodrigo S. Nemmen , Richard G. Bower

Unopposed radiative cooling of plasma would lead to the cooling catastrophe, a massive inflow of condensing gas, manifest in the core of galaxies, groups and clusters. The last generation X-ray telescopes, Chandra and XMM, have radically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Gaspari , F. Brighenti , M. Ruszkowski

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are massive black holes (BHs) caught in the act of accreting gas at the centre of their host galaxies. Part of the accreting mass is converted to energy and released into the surrounding medium, in a process…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 Luca Sala , Elia Cenci , Pedro R. Capelo , Alessandro Lupi , Massimo Dotti

To investigate the differences in mechanical feedback from radio-loud and radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on the host galaxy, we perform 3D AMR hydrodynamic simulations of wide angle, radio-quiet winds with different inclinations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Zachary Dugan , Volker Gaibler , Joseph Silk

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

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

Gas accretion by a galaxy's central super massive black hole (SMBH) and the resultant energetic feedback by the accreting active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the gas in and around a galaxy, are two tightly intertwined but competing processes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Tom Oosterloo , Raffaella Morganti , Suma Murthy

We study the interplay between turbulent heating, mixing, and radiative cooling in an idealized model of cool cluster cores. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets are expected to drive turbulence and heat cluster cores. Cooling of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Nilanjan Banerjee , Prateek Sharma

We put forward an alternative view to the Bondi-driven feedback between heating and cooling of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in cooling flow galaxies and clusters. We adopt the popular view that the heating is due to an active galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Fabio Pizzolato

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

The process that prevents the deposition of cooled gas in cooling flows must rely on feedback in order to maintain gas with short cooling times, while preventing the bulk of the gas from cooling to low temperatures. The primary candidate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Nulsen

Cool cores of galaxy clusters are thought to be heated by low-power active galactic nuclei (AGN), whose accretion is regulated by feedback. However, the interaction between the hot gas ejected by the AGN and the ambient intracluster medium…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-01 M. Brueggen , E. Scannapieco