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We present a new implementation of the GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly (GAEA) semi-analytic model, that features an improved modelling of the process of cold gas accretion onto supermassive black hole (SMBHs), derived from both analytic…

Some catastrophic stellar explosions, such as supernovae (SNe), compact binary coalescences, and micro-tidal disruption events, are believed to be embedded in the accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN). We show high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-23 Jin-Ping Zhu , Kai Wang , Bing Zhang

Recent models of super-massive black hole (SMBH) and host galaxy joint evolution predict the presence of a key phase where accretion, traced by obscured Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission, is coupled with powerful star formation. Then…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Cristian Vignali

We explore the connection between different classes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the evolution of their host galaxies, by deriving host galaxy properties, clustering, and Eddington ratios of AGNs selected in the radio, X-ray, and…

Context. Observations indicate a strong link between star formation and black hole (BH) growth, but some questions remain unanswered: whether both activities are coeval or whether one precedes the other, what their characteristic timescales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Polletta

Keplerian accretion discs around massive black holes (MBHs) are gravitationally unstable beyond a few hundredths of parsec and should collapse to form stars. Indeed an accretion/star formation episode took place a few millions years ago in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Suzy Collin , Jean-Paul Zahn

Powerful winds driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to play a fundamental role in the evolution of both supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, quenching star formation and explaining the tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Francesco Tombesi

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most energetic phenomena in the universe, capable of regulating star formation in galaxies via radiative and mechanical feedback. While AGN feedback is well studied in host galaxies, its influence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-14 Apashanka Das , Biswajit Pandey

Among the emerging excess of massive, bright galaxies at Cosmic Dawn $z \gtrsim 9$ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope, several exhibit spectral features associated with active galactic nuclei (AGN). These AGN candidates suggest that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-23 James Sunseri , Zachary L. Andalman , Romain Teyssier

We perform collisionless N-body simulations to investigate the evolution of the structural and kinematical properties of simulated thick disks induced by the growth of an embedded thin disk. The thick disks used in the present study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Álvaro Villalobos , Stelios Kazantzidis , Amina Helmi

Energetic feedback from star clusters plays a pivotal role in shaping the dynamical evolution of giant molecular clouds (GMCs). To study the effects of stellar feedback on the star formation efficiency of the clouds and the dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 Hui Li , Mark Vogelsberger , Federico Marinacci , Oleg Y. Gnedin

I review recent progresses in the dynamics and the evolution of self-gravitating accretion discs. Accretion discs are a fundamental component of several astrophysical systems on very diverse scales, and can be found around supermassive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Lodato

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the primary targets of future space-based gravitational-wave observatories, such as LISA, TianQin, and Taiji. Active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks provide a gas-rich environment in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 LingQin Xue , Zoltán Haiman , Hiromichi Tagawa , Imre Bartos

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…

Spin evolution of stellar-mass Black Holes (sBHs) embedded in AGN accretion disks is an important process relevant to production of gravitaional waves from binary Black Hole (BBH) merger events through the AGN channel. Since embedded sBHs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Ya-Ping Li , Yi-Xian Chen , Douglas N. C. Lin , Zhuoxiao Wang

Models of rotationally-driven dynamos in stellar radiative zones have suggested that magnetohydrodynamic transport of angular momentum and chemical composition can dominate over the otherwise purely hydrodynamic processes. A proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Adrian T. Potter , Shashikumar M. Chitre , Christopher A. Tout

Observations of AGN have suggested a possible delay between the peak of star formation (on some scale) and AGN activity. Inefficient fueling (and/or feedback) from fast stellar winds has been invoked to explain this, but we argue this is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-22 Philip F. Hopkins

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

Evolved stars dominate galactic spectra, enrich the galactic medium, expand to change their planetary systems, eject winds of a complex nature, produce spectacular nebulae and illuminate them, and transfer material between binary…

Stars and stellar remnants orbiting a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can interact with an active galactic nucleus (AGN) disc. Over time, prograde orbiters (inclination $i<90^{\circ}$) decrease inclination, as well as semi-major axis $(a)$…