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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

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

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is believed to prevent catastrophic cooling in galaxy clusters. However, how the feedback energy is transformed into heat, and how the AGN jets heat the intracluster medium (ICM) isotropically,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-05 H. -Y. K. Yang , C. S. Reynolds

Central jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) appear to heat the core regions of the intracluster medium (ICM) in cooling-core galaxy clusters and groups, thereby preventing a cooling catastrophe. However, the physical mechanism(s) by which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-16 Christopher S. Reynolds , Steven A. Balbus , Alexander A. Schekochihin

Recent cosmological simulations have shown that turbulence should be generally prevailing in clusters because clusters are continuously growing through matter accretion. Using one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations, we study the heating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-21 Yutaka Fujita , Renyue Cen , Irina Zhuravleva

Hot, underdense bubbles powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are likely to play a key role in halting catastrophic cooling in the centers of cool-core galaxy clusters. We present three-dimensional simulations that capture the evolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

We investigate the role of AGN feedback in turbulent heating of galaxy clusters. Specifically, we analyze the production of turbulence by g-modes generated by the supersonic expansion and buoyant rise of AGN-driven bubbles. Previous work…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Christopher J. Bambic , Brian J. Morsony , Christopher S. Reynolds

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

The intracluster medium (ICM) is a multi-phase environment, dynamically regulated by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), the motions of galaxies through it, and mergers with other clusters. AGN as a central heating source are key to preventing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-19 Urmila Chadayammuri , Michael Tremmel , Daisuke Nagai , Arif Babul , Thomas Quinn

Feedback from the active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the most promising heating mechanisms to circumvent the cooling-flow problem in galaxy clusters. However, the role of thermal conduction remains unclear. Previous studies have shown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 H. -Y. K. Yang , C. S. Reynolds

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

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

We analyse a hydrodynamical simulation model for the recurrent heating of the central intracluster medium (ICM) by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Besides the self-gravity of the dark matter and gas components, our approach includes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

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

Deep Chandra observations of the core of the Perseus cluster show a plethora of complex structure. It has been found that when the observed density fluctuations in the intracluster medium are converted into constraints on AGN induced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-12 S. A. Walker , J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian

AGN feedback is responsible for maintaining plasma in global thermal balance in extended halos of elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters. Local thermal instability in the hot gas leads to the formation of precipitating cold gas clouds that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 C. Wang , M. Ruszkowski , C. Pfrommer , S. Peng Oh , H. -Y. K. Yang

Detection of the copious amount of X-ray emission from the dilute hot plasma in galaxy clusters suggests that a substantial fraction of the central intracluster medium (ICM) is cooling radiatively on a time scale much faster than the Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-21 M K Patil

Observations support the view that feedback, in the form of radio outbursts from active nuclei in central galaxies, prevents catastrophic cooling of gas and rapid star formation in many groups and clusters of galaxies. Variations in jet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 P. E. J. Nulsen , B. R. McNamara

We study the feedback between heating and cooling of the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in cooling flow (CF) galaxies and clusters. We adopt the popular view that the heating is due to an active galactic nucleus (AGN), i.e. a central black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabio Pizzolato , Noam Soker

We simulate the effects of viscous dissipation of waves that are generated by AGN activity in clusters of galaxies. We demonstrate that the amount of viscous heating associated with the dissipation of these waves can offset radiative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mateusz Ruszkowski , Marcus Bruggen , Mitchell C. Begelman
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