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The energy budget of all known optical jets is discussed. It is found that to power the extended radio lobes of radio galaxies, the jet bulk motion on kpc scales must be relativistic, on average. Based on various constraints, a ``most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Riccardo Scarpa , C. Megan Urry

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Theodora Papavasileiou , Odysseas Kosmas , Ioannis Sinatkas

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in the center of almost every galaxy. Powerful, highly ionized winds, with velocities $\sim 0.1- 0.2c$ are a common feature in X--ray spectra of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Andrew King , Ken Pounds

Relativistic jets naturally occur in astrophysical systems that involve accretion onto compact objects, such as core collapse of massive stars in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and accretion onto supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Omer Bromberg , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

We present \chandra high energy transmission grating spectra of the narrow-line Seyfert-1 galaxy Ark 564. The spectrum shows numerous absorption lines which are well modeled with low velocity outflow components usually observed in Seyfert…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Gupta , S. Mathur , Y. Krongold , F. Nicastro

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and their relativistic jets belong to the most promising class of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) accelerators. This compact review summarises basic experimental findings by recent instruments, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Frank M. Rieger

AGN are a key ingredient for understanding galactic evolution. AGN-driven outflows are one of the manifestations of feedback. The AO mode for MUSE at the VLT permits to study the innermost tens of parsecs of nearby AGN in the optical. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 S. Comerón , J. H. Knapen , C. Ramos Almeida , A. E. Watkins

Outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are an important channel for accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs) to interact with their host galaxies and clusters. Properties of the outflows are however poorly constrained due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Yu Qiu , Brian R. McNamara , Tamara Bogdanovic , Kohei Inayoshi , Luis C. Ho

We report observations of a powerful ionized gas outflow in a z = 4.1 luminous ($ L_{1.4GHz} \sim 10^{28.3} \ W \ Hz^{-1}$) radio galaxy TNJ1338-1942 hosting an obscured quasar using the Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board JWST.…

The mechanism and the region of generation of variable continuum emission are poorly understood for radio-loud AGN because of a complexity of the nuclear region. High-resolution radio VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. G. Arshakian , J. Leon-Tavares , A. P. Lobanov , V. H. Chavushyan , A. I. Shapovalova , A. N. Burenkov , J. A. Zensus

Galactic-wide outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is a routinely invoked feedback mechanism in galaxy evolution models. Hitherto, the interplay among the interstellar gas on galactic scales, the propagation of AGN outflows and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-04 Zhicheng He , Zhifu Chen , Guilin Liu , Tinggui Wang , Luis C. Ho , Junxian Wang , Weihao Bian , Zheng Cai , Guobin Mou , Qiusheng Gu , Zhiwen Wang

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) show a range of morphologies and dynamical properties, which are determined not only by parameters intrinsic to the central engine but also their interaction with the surrounding environment. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell , Yuan Li

We present an analytical model for describing highly relativistic acceleration of magnetically driven jets, within the framework of ideal MHD for cold, stationary and axisymmetric outflows. Our novel procedure is to treat the wind equation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Akira Tomimatsu , Masaaki Takahashi

Radio-Loud (RL) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are among the brightest astrophysical sources at all wavelengths. Their relativistic jets can affect both their Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) growth and the surrounding intergalactic medium.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-03 Luca Ighina

Recent radio emission, polarization, and Faraday rotation maps of the radio jet of the galaxy 3C 303 have shown that one knot of this jet has a {\it galactic}-scale electric current of $\sim 3\times 10^{18}$ Amp\`ere flowing along the jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-01 R. V. E. Lovelace , S. Dyda , P. P. Kronberg

The quasar mode of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the high-redshift Universe is routinely observed in gas-rich galaxies together with large-scale AGN-driven winds. It is crucial to understand how photons emitted by the central AGN source…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Rebekka Bieri , Yohan Dubois , Joakim Rosdahl , Alexander Y. Wagner , Joseph Silk , Gary A. Mamon

Determining the distance of quasar absorption outflows from the central source (R) and their kinetic luminosity are crucial for understanding their contribution to active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback. Here we summarize the results for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Timothy R. Miller , Nahum Arav , Xinfeng Xu , Gerard A. Kriss

To investigate how the radio-identified active galactic nuclei (AGN) fraction varies with cluster-centric radius, we present the projected and de-projected distributions of a large sample of LOFAR-identified radio AGN out to $30R_{500}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-18 K de Vos , N. A. Hatch , M. R. Merrifield

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) on their host galaxies, in the form of gas outflows capable of quenching star formation, is considered a major player in galaxy evolution. However, clear observational evidence of such major impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Giacomo Venturi , Alessandro Marconi

The enormous sizes and variability of emission of radio-loud AGNs arise from the relativistic flows of plasma along two oppositely directed jets. We use the Athena hydrodynamics code to simulate an extensive suite of 54 propagating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Yutong Li , Paul J. Wiita , Terance Schuh , Geena Elghossain , Shaoming Hu