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Simulation of AGN feedback and its impact on galaxies

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Bourne, MA 

Abstract

Feedback released during the growth of supermassive black holes is expected to play a key role in shaping black hole-host galaxy co-evolution. Powerful, accretion disc driven winds have been invoked to explain both observed scaling relations (e.g., M − σ) and large-scale outflows with mass outflow rates of ~ 100 − 1000 M⊙ yr−1 and momentum rates of up to ~ 30 LAGN/c. Critically, how these winds couple to the host galaxy depends on if they are momentum or energy conserving. I outline observational signatures that could distinguish between these regimes and discuss their roles in establishing galaxy properties. Furthermore, I discuss high-resolution simulations exploring feedback in a multi-phase medium, highlighting how structural properties of galaxies can impact feedback efficiency. Finally, feedback, in the form of collimated jets, is expected to regulate cooling in galaxy clusters. I discuss new simulations of jet feedback using the moving-mesh code AREPO and outline the scope of our new study.

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Keywords

galaxies: active, galaxies: ISM, (galaxies:) quasars: general, galaxies: clusters: general, (galaxies:) cooling flows, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: jets, methods: numerical

Journal Title

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union

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Journal ISSN

1743-9213
1743-9221

Volume Title

12

Publisher

Cambridge University Press
Sponsorship
European Research Council (638707)
I would like to acknowledge support by the ERC starting grant 638707 “BHs and their host galaxies: co-evolution across cosmic time.”