Backflows by active galactic nuclei jets: global properties and influence on supermassive black hole accretion
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| 作者 | Cielo, S.; Antonuccio-Delogu, V.; Silk, J.; Romeo, A. D. |
| 刊名 | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
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| 出版日期 | 2017 |
| 卷号 | 467期号:4页码:4526-4539 |
| 英文摘要 | Jets from active galactic nuclei (AGN) inflate large cavities in the hot gas environment around galaxies and galaxy clusters. The large-scale gas circulation promoted within such cavities by the jet itself gives rise to backflows that propagate back to the centre of the jet-cocoon system, spanning all the physical scales relevant for the AGN. Using an adaptive mesh refinement code, we study these backflows through a series of numerical experiments, aiming at understanding how their global properties depend on jet parameters. We are able to characterize their mass flux down to a scale of a few kiloparsecs to about 0.5 M(circle dot)yr(-1) for as long as 15 or 20 Myr, depending on jet power. We find that backflows are both spatially coherent and temporally intermittent, independently of jet power in the range 10(43)-10(45) erg s(-1). Using the mass flux thus measured, we model analytically the effect of backflows on the central accretion region, where a magnetically arrested disc lies at the centre of a thin circumnuclear disc. Backflow accretion on to the disc modifies its density profile, producing a flat core and tail. We use this analytic model to predict how accretion beyond the black hole magnetopause is modified, and thus how the jet power is temporally modulated. Under the assumption that the magnetic flux stays frozen in the accreting matter, and that the jets are always launched via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, we find that backflows are capable of boosting the jet power up to tenfold during relatively short time episodes (a few Myr). |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 源URL | [http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/17493]  |
| 专题 | 中国科学院紫金山天文台 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cielo, S.,Antonuccio-Delogu, V.,Silk, J.,et al. Backflows by active galactic nuclei jets: global properties and influence on supermassive black hole accretion[J]. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,2017,467(4):4526-4539. |
| APA | Cielo, S.,Antonuccio-Delogu, V.,Silk, J.,&Romeo, A. D..(2017).Backflows by active galactic nuclei jets: global properties and influence on supermassive black hole accretion.MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY,467(4),4526-4539. |
| MLA | Cielo, S.,et al."Backflows by active galactic nuclei jets: global properties and influence on supermassive black hole accretion".MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 467.4(2017):4526-4539. |
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