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We study the effects of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) feedback on the formation and evolution of galaxies in a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. This model is an improved version of the one described by Cora (2006), which now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Claudia del P. Lagos , Sofia A. Cora , Nelson D. Padilla , .

Hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) have typically employed feedback that is purely local: i.e., an injection of energy to the immediate neighborhood of the black hole. We perform GADGET-2 simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Clay Hambrick , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson

We present a new implementation for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback through small-scale, ultra-fast winds in the moving-mesh hydrodynamic code AREPO. The wind is injected by prescribing mass, momentum and energy fluxes across a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Tiago Costa , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Recently, rapid observational and theoretical progress has established that black holes (BHs) play a decisive role in the formation and evolution of individual galaxies as well as galaxy groups and clusters. In particular, there is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Ewald Puchwein , Debora Sijacki , Volker Springel

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is crucial for regulating galaxy evolution. Motivated by observations of broad absorption line winds from rapidly accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), we introduce the Mistral AGN feedback…

The feedback mechanisms triggered by supernova (SN) events and active galactic nuclei (AGN) play a central role in regulating the star formation and shaping galaxy properties. However, quantifying the impact and efficiency of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-12 M. C. Zerbo , M. E. De Rossi , M. A. Lara-López , S. A. Cora , L. J. Zenocratti

We have used GADGET2 to simulate the formation of an elliptical galaxy in a cosmological dark matter halo with mass 3x10^12M_Sun/h. Using a stellar population synthesis model has allowed us to compute magnitudes, colours and surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Khalatyan , A. Cattaneo , M. Schramm , S. Gottloeber , M. Steinmetz , L. Wisotzki

Aims. Recent observational studies suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may play an important role in the formation and evolution of low-mass dwarf galaxies, an issue that has received little attention from a theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-27 Elena Arjona-Galvez , Arianna Di Cintio , Robert J. J. Grand

We study the effect of AGN mechanical and radiation feedback on the formation of bulge dominated galaxies via mergers of disc galaxies. The merging galaxies have mass-ratios of 1:1 to 6:1 and include pre-existing hot gaseous halos to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ena Choi , Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Peter H. Johansson , Benjamin P. Moster

The gravitational interaction at parsec to sub-parsec scales between a circumbinary gas disc and a super massive black hole binary (SMBHB) is a promising mechanism to drive the migration of SMBHBs toward coalescence. The typical dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Luciano del Valle , Marta Volonteri

The interplay between cosmic gas accretion on to galaxies and galaxy mergers drives the observed morphological diversity of galaxies. By comparing the state-of-the-art hydrodynamical cosmological simulations Horizon-AGN and Horizon-noAGN,…

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

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

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

Several processes may limit the accretion rate onto a super-massive black hole (SMBH). Two processes that are commonly considered (e.g., for sub-grid prescriptions) are Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion and the Eddington limit. A third one is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 Meir Zeilig Hess , Amir Levinson , Ehud Nakar

We present 2D hydrodynamical simulations for the evolution of early-type galaxies containing central massive black holes (MBHs), starting at age 2 Gyr. The code contains accurate and physically consistent radiative and mechanical AGN wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 L. Ciotti , S. Pellegrini , A. Negri , J. P. Ostriker

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…

Based on two-dimensional high resolution hydrodynamic numerical simulation, we study the mechanical and radiative feedback effects from the central AGN on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy. Physical processes such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Zhaoming Gan , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Luca Ciotti , Gregory S. Novak

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

In order to understand the physical mechanisms at work during the formation of massive early-type galaxies, we performed six zoomed hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of halos in the mass range 4.3 10^12 < M_vir < 8.0 10^13 M_sun at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yohan Dubois , Raphaël Gavazzi , Sébastien Peirani , Joseph Silk