Cosmic Feedback from AGN

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2009-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/0912.0880v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

9 pages, 13 figures, Proceedings IAU Symposium 267, Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies

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Accretion onto the massive black hole at the centre of a galaxy can feed energy and momentum into its surroundings via radiation, winds and jets. Feedback due to radiation pressure can lock the mass of the black hole onto the M-sigma relation, and shape the final stellar bulge of the galaxy. Feedback due to the kinetic power of jets can prevent massive galaxies greatly increasing their stellar mass, by heating gas which would otherwise cool radiatively. The mechanisms involved in cosmic feedback are discussed and illustrated with observations.

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