Refiloe edited subsection_AGN_feedback_in_galaxies__.tex  over 8 years ago

Commit id: b39889878a44968432231fff21a451b577b002e1

deletions | additions      

       

Accretion onto SMBHs can release tremendous amounts of energy that can potentially drive large-scale outflows, and quench the star formation. Accretion is an important feedback source for galaxy formation as it releases vast amounts of energy – this is why AGN have high luminosities. \cite{Karouzos_2013} provides evidence for the existence of a positive correlation between the luminosity of the AGN component of a host galaxy and the host’s star-formation. This is said to be independent of the radio luminosity. It was also discovered that high radio-luminosities are associated with a decrease in star-formation rate \cite{Mo_2009}. Analytical models of galaxy formation that use cosmological N-body simulations have revealed that AGN feedback can be responsible for creating a population of red and dead massive galaxies \cite{Mo_2009}.  Hot gas, cold gas, stars, and a supermassive black hole are the main components of a galaxy. Cooling, star formation, AGN accretion and feedback processes can transfer particles from one component to another, and in that way alter the efficiency of all the processes in the galaxy. For example, increased cooling of hot gas will lead to the production of more cold gas. This in turn increases the star formation rate, therefore increasing the rate of supernovae. Energy released by supernovae and ejections from AGN jets and reheats cold gas.This leads to a suppression of star formation (negative feedback). In contrast, supernova blast-waves may also compress the surrounding cold gas, thus increasing star formation rate (positive feedback). The formation and evolution of galaxies depends on these feedback loops. \cite{MO_2011}\cite{MO_2011}(Mo et al, 2011). \cite{Mo_2009}.