Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-02-05
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Invited talk, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 267, "Co-Evolution of Central Black Holes and Galaxies", B.M.
Scientific paper
We discuss evidence that quasars, and more generally radio jets, may have played an active role in the formation stage of galaxies by inducing star formation, i.e. through positive feedback. This mechanism first proposed in the 70's has been considered as anecdotic until now, contrary to the opposite effect that is generally put forward, the quenching of star formation in massive galaxies to explain the galaxy bimodality, downsizing and the universal black hole mass over bulge stellar mass ratio. This suggestion is based on the recent discovery of an ultra-luminous infrared galaxies, i.e. an extreme starburst, which appears to be triggered by a radio jet from the QSO HE0450-2958 at z=0.2863, together with the finding in several systems of an offset between molecular gas and quasars, which may be explained by the positive feedback effect of radio jets on their local environment.
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