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While there is overwhelming observational evidence of AGN-driven jets in galaxy clusters and groups, if and how the jet energy is delivered to the ambient medium remains unanswered. Here we perform very high resolution AGN jet simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin A. Bourne , Debora Sijacki

Cool outflows are now commonly observed in galaxies, but their physical origin and driving mechanism remain unclear. Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback can potentially accelerate cool galactic outflows via cosmic rays (CR) and radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

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…

We describe techniques for incorporating feedback from star formation and black hole accretion into simulations of isolated and merging galaxies. At present, the details of these processes cannot be resolved in simulations on galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Springel , Tiziana Di Matteo , Lars Hernquist

In this paper we investigate the role of AGN feedback on the late stage evolution of elliptical galaxies by performing high-resolution hydrodynamical simulation in the {\it MACER} framework. By comparing models that take into account…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-31 Bocheng Zhu , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Yingjie Peng , Luis C. Ho

The feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) plays a crucial role in regulating the thermodynamics and the dynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM). Studying the turbulent patterns of the hot and warm ionized phases may allow us to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-14 Stefano Sotira , Franco Vazza , Fabrizio Brighenti

Growing supermassive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN) release energy with the potential to alter their host galaxies and larger-scale environment; a process named "AGN feedback". Feedback is a required component of galaxy formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-15 Chris M. Harrison , Cristina Ramos Almeida

Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) feedback plays a critical role in galaxy formation and evolution. AGN-driven winds can significantly influence their host galaxies, although the details of their impact remain unclear. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Jinning Liang , Cedric G. Lacey , Filip Huško , Evgenii Chaikin , Sownak Bose

Wind and jet are important medium of AGN feedback thus it is crucial to obtain their properties for the feedback study. In this paper we investigate the properties of wind and jet launched from a magnetized super-Eddington accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai

[abridged] Aims: We test the effects of re-orienting jets from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the intracluster medium in a galaxy cluster environment with short central cooling time. We investigate appearance and properties of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 S. Cielo , A. Babul , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , J. Silk , M. Volonteri

The co-evolution between supermassive black holes and their environment is most directly traced by the hot atmospheres of dark matter halos. Cooling of the hot atmosphere supplies the central regions with fresh gas, igniting active galactic…

Jet feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising mechanisms for suppressing cooling flows in cool-core clusters. However, the composition of AGN jets and bubbles remains uncertain; they could be thermally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Yen-Hsing Lin , H. -Y. Karen Yang , Ellis R. Owen

In large scale cosmological hydrodynamic simulations simplified sub-grid models for gas accretion onto black holes and AGN feedback are commonly used. Such models typically depend on various free parameters, which are not well constrained.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Lisa K. Steinborn , Klaus Dolag , Michaela Hirschmann , M. Almudena Prieto , Rhea-Silvia Remus

We analyzed the feedback of AGN jets on cooling flow clusters using three-dimensional AMR hydrodynamic simulations. We studied the interaction of the jet with the intracluster medium and creation of low X-ray emission cavities (Bubbles) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Alouani Bibi , J. Binney , K. Blundell , H. Omma

We investigate a series of steady-state models of galaxy clusters, in which the hot intracluster gas is efficiently heated by active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback and thermal conduction, and in which the mass accretion rates are highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fulai Guo , S. Peng Oh , M. Ruszkowski

We implement a black hole spin evolution and jet feedback model into SWIFT, a smoothed particle hydrodynamics code. The jet power is determined self-consistently assuming Bondi accretion, using a realistic, spin-dependant efficiency. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Filip Huško , Cedric G. Lacey , Joop Schaye , Matthieu Schaller , Folkert S. J. Nobels

We study how jets driven by active galactic nuclei influence the cooling flow in Perseus-like galaxy cluster cores with idealised, non-relativistic, hydrodynamical simulations performed with the Eulerian code ATHENA using high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-12 Davide Martizzi , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere , Drummond Fielding

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

Observations made during the last ten years with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have shed much light on the cooling gas in the centers of clusters of galaxies and the role of active galactic nucleus (AGN) heating. Cooling of the hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Elizabeth L. Blanton , T. E. Clarke , Craig L. Sarazin , Scott W. Randall , Brian R. McNamara

The energy emitted by active galactic nuclei (AGN) may provide a self-regulating process (AGN feedback) that shapes the evolution of galaxies. This is believed to operate along two modes: on galactic scales by clearing the interstellar…