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Proceedings Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union Year : 2019

AGN fueling and feedback

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Abstract Dynamical mechanisms are essential to exchange angular momentum in galaxies, drive the gas to the center, and fuel the central super-massive black holes. While at 100pc scale, the gas is sometimes stalled in nuclear rings, recent observations reaching ∼10pc scale have revealed, within the sphere of influence of the black hole, smoking gun evidence of fueling. Observations of AGN feedback are described, together with the suspected responsible mechanisms. Molecular outflows are frequently detected in active galaxies with ALMA and NOEMA, with loading factors between 1 and 5. When driven by AGN with escape velocity, these outflows are therefore a clear way to moderate or suppress star formation. Molecular disks, or tori, are detected at 10pc-scale, kinematically decoupled from their host disk, with random orientation. They can be used to measure the black hole mass.
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obspm-03998870 , version 1 (21-02-2023)

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Francoise Combes. AGN fueling and feedback. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 15 (S356), pp.177-183, 2019, ⟨10.1017/S1743921320002860⟩. ⟨obspm-03998870⟩
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