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Massive stars can form within or be captured by AGN disks, influencing both the thermal structure and metallicity of the disk environment. In a previous work, we investigated isotropic accretion onto massive stars from a gas-rich,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Yi-Xian Chen , Yan-Fei Jiang , Jeremy Goodman

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

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)…

Observations indicate that massive galaxies at z~2 are more compact than galaxies of comparable mass at z~0, with effective radii evolving by a factor of ~3-5. This implies that galaxies grow significantly in size but relatively little in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian , R. E. A. Canning

We use hydrodynamical simulations to study the color transformations induced by star formation and active galactic nuclei (AGN) during major mergers of spiral galaxies. Our modeling accounts for radiative cooling, star formation, and…

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

A major amendment in recent models of hierarchical galaxy formation is the inclusion of so-called AGN feedback. The energy input from an active central massive black hole is invoked to suppress star formation in early-type galaxies at later…

We develop a new sub-grid model for the growth of supermassive Black Holes (BHs) and their associated Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback in hydrodynamical cosmological simulations. Assuming that BHs are created in the early stages of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yohan Dubois , Julien Devriendt , Adrianne Slyz , Romain Teyssier

Stars with outflows interacting with ambient gas experience accelerations arising from the gravitational feedback induced by the interaction structure. In this work, three-dimensional (3D) local shearing box simulations are performed to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Muxin Liu , Lile Wang , Peng Peng

It is still a matter of intense debate how supermassive black holes (SMBH) grow, and the role played by feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the co-evolution of SMBHs and galaxies. To test the coevolution proposed by theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 George Mountrichas , Francesco Shankar

We present new two-fluid models of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that aim to address the long-standing problem of Toomre instability in AGN outskirts. In the spirit of earlier works by Sirko & Goodman and others, we argue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Shmuel Gilbaum , Nicholas C. Stone

We summarize what large surveys of the contemporary universe have taught us about the physics and phenomenology of the processes that link the formation and evolution of galaxies and their central supermassive black holes. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Timothy Heckman , Philip Best

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) has become a major component in simulations of galaxy evolution, in particular for massive galaxies. AGN jets have been shown to provide a large amount of energy and are capable of quenching…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-13 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause , Joseph Silk

In a previous work, we have proposed a sub-grid model of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback by taking into account the state-of-the-art AGN physics, and used that model to study the effect of AGN feedback on the evolution of an isolated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-08 Zhiyuan Yao , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Understanding how galaxies maintain the inefficiency of star formation with physically self-consistent models is a central problem for galaxy evolution. Although numerous theoretical models have been proposed in recent decades, the debate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Houjun Mo , Doosoo Yoon , Zhao-Ming Gan , Luis C. Ho , Bo Wang , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti

We study the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies and how they suppress star formation and maintain it quenched. A one-zone chemical model which follows in detail the time evolution of gas mass and its chemical abundances during…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Marta Molero , Francesca Matteucci , Luca Ciotti

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to investigate the role of feedback from accreting black holes on the evolution of sizes, compactness, stellar core density and specific star-formation of massive galaxies with stellar masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Ena Choi , Rachel S. Somerville , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Michaela Hirschmann

Strong iron lines are a common feature of the optical spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and quasars from $z\sim 6-7$ to the local Universe, and [Fe/Mg] ratios do not show cosmic evolution. During active episodes, accretion disks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-14 J. -M. Wang , S. , Zhai , Y. -R. Li , Y. -Y. Songsheng , L. C. Ho , Y. -J. Chen , J. -R. Liu , P. Du , Y. -F. Yuan

The vast amount of energy released by active galactic nuclei (AGN) is increasingly recognized as a key driver of evolution not only in massive galaxies and clusters, but also in low-mass dwarf galaxies. Despite this, their role in the early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Mahsa Sanati , Julien Devriendt , SergioMartin-Alvarez , Adrianne Slyz , Jonathan C. Tan

Most analytic work to date on protostellar disks has focused on those in isolation from their environments. However, observations are now beginning to probe the earliest, most embedded phases of star formation, during which disks are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kaitlin M. Kratter , Christopher D. Matzner , Mark R. Krumholz , .

We investigate the effects of AGN feedback on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing two-dimensional high-resolution hydrodynamical numerical simulations. The inner boundary of the simulation is chosen so…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Feng Yuan , Doosoo Yoon , Ya-Ping Li , Zhao-Ming Gan , Luis C. Ho , Fulai Guo