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We employ hydrodynamical simulations using the moving-mesh code AREPO to investigate the role of energy and momentum input from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in driving large-scale galactic outflows. We start by reproducing analytic…

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We present a series of three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of central AGN driven jets in a dynamic, cosmologically evolved galaxy cluster. Extending previous work, we study jet powers ranging from L_jet = 10^44 erg/s to L_jet =…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Brian J. Morsony , Sebastian Heinz , Marcus Bruggen , Mateusz Ruszkowski

The non-gravitational energy feedback is of crucial importance in modeling/simulating clusters to be used as cosmological probes. AGNs are, arguably, of primary importance in injecting energy in the cluster cores. We make the first estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Anya Chaudhuri , Subhabrata Majumdar , Biman B. Nath

Previous studies of strong gravitational lensing by galaxy clusters neglected the potential impact of the intracluster gas. Here, we compare simulations of strong cluster lensing including gas physics at increasing levels of complexity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ewald Puchwein , Matthias Bartelmann , Klaus Dolag , Massimo Meneghetti

Observations and simulations show that outflows in active galactic nuclei (AGN) contain gas in different phases. To understand their true impact on galaxy evolution, we advocate consistent and unbiased investigation of these multiphase…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-01 Claudia Cicone , Marcella Brusa , Cristina Ramos Almeida , Giovanni Cresci , Bernd Husemann , Vincenzo Mainieri

Using high-resolution 3-D and 2-D (axisymmetric) hydrodynamic simulations in spherical geometry, we study the evolution of cool cluster cores heated by feedback-driven bipolar active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. Condensation of cold gas, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 Deovrat Prasad , Prateek Sharma , Arif Babul

Galaxy-wide outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are an important ingredient in galaxy evolution. Analytical calculations suggest that such outflows have significant inertia and can persist long after the AGN itself fades away.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-14 Kastytis Zubovas , Gediminas Maskeliūnas

Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are expected to heat the surrounding intracluster medium (ICM). We investigate how the interaction between jets and the ICM appears in high-resolution X-ray observations using mock X-ray observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Mahiro Shirotori , Yutaka Fujita

We demonstrate that our Galactic Center, despite little evidence for the presence of a currently active nucleus, provides insight into the feeding of AGN: The observed velocity field of molecular clouds can be interpreted as tracing out the…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation feedback may heat and remove gas from galaxies in a process that quenches ongoing star formation and shapes the evolution of galaxies. Potential impacts from these processes can be seen in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-10 Kyla Mullaney , Kelly E. Whalen , Jenna Cann , Kimberly Weaver , Jeffrey McKaig , Sara Doan

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are important drivers of galactic evolution; however, the underlying physical processes governing their properties remain uncertain. In particular, the specific cause for the generation of the broad-line region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 James E. Owen , Douglas N. C. Lin

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

Filaments of cold gas ($T\leq 10^{4}$ K) are found in the inner regions of many cool-core clusters. These structures are thought to play a major role in the regulation of feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN). We study the morphology…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Martin Fournier , Philipp Grete , Marcus Brüggen , Forrest W. Glines , Brian W. O'Shea

Large-scale, broad outflows are common in active galaxies. In systems where star formation coexists with an AGN, it is unclear yet the role that both play on driving the outflows. In this work we present three-dimensional radiative-cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-21 E. de Gouveia Dal Pino , W. Clavijo-Bohórquez , C. Melioli

We investigate the effects of a cD galaxy's gravity and AGN heating of the host galaxy cluster. We consider a standard prescription for the hydrodynamics, with the structures determined by mass continuity, momentum and energy conservation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu

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

The intrinsic correlations of galaxy shapes and orientations across the large-scale structure of the Universe are a known contaminant to weak gravitational lensing. They are known to be dependent on galaxy properties, such as their mass and…

Dense gas in the centre of galaxies feeds massive black holes, but can also become a source of obscuration and limit our ability to find faint Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We use a high resolution cosmological radiative hydrodynamics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Maxime Trebitsch , Marta Volonteri , Yohan Dubois

Recent X-ray observations of clusters of galaxies have shown that the entropy of the intracluster medium (ICM), even at radii as large as half the virial radius, is higher than that expected from gravitational processes alone. This is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Roychowdhury , M. Ruszkowski , B. B. Nath , Mitchell C. Begelman

We present an analysis of the cluster X-ray morphology and active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity in nine $z\sim1$ galaxy clusters from the Massive and Distant Clusters of $WISE$ Survey (MaDCoWS) observed with $Chandra$. Using photon…