The global energetics of radio AGN kinetic feedback in the local universe

Abstract

[abridged] AGN feedback is a crucial ingredient for understanding galaxy evolution. However, a complete quantitative time-dependent framework, including the dependence of such feedback on AGN, host galaxy, and host halo properties, is yet to be developed. Using the complete sample of 682 radio AGN from the LOFAR-eFEDS survey ($z<0.4$), we derive the average jet power of massive galaxies and its variation as a function of stellar mass ($M_{\ast }$), halo mass ($M_h$) and radio morphology. We compare the incidence distributions of compact and complex radio AGN as a function of specific black hole kinetic power, ${\lambda }_{\mathrm{Jet}}$, and synthesise, for the first time, the radio luminosity function (RLF) by $M_{\ast }$ and radio morphology. Our RLF and derived total radio AGN kinetic luminosity density, $\log {\Omega }_{\mathrm{kin}}/[\mathrm{W}\mathrm{Mp}{\mathrm{c}}^{-3}]=32.15_{-0.34}^{+0.18}$, align with previous work. We find that kinetic feedback from radio AGN dominates over any plausible inventory of radiatively-driven feedback for galaxies with $\log M_{\ast }/M_{\odot }>10.6$. More specifically, it is the compact radio AGN which dominate this global kinetic energy budget for all but the most massive galaxies ($10.6<\log M_{\ast }/M_{\odot }<11.5$). Subsequently, we compare the average injected jet energy against the galaxy and halo binding energy, and against the total thermal energy of the host gas within halos. We find that radio AGN cannot fully unbind their host galaxies nor host halos. However, they have enough energy to impact the global thermodynamical heating and cooling balance in small halos and significantly contribute to offsetting local cooling flows in even the most massive clusters cores. Overall, our findings provide important insights on jet powering, accretion processes and black hole-galaxy coevolution via AGN feedback, as well as a clear observational benchmark to calibrate AGN feedback simulations.

15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

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