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Radiative feedback from quasars and the growth of massive black holes in stellar spheroids
S. Yu. Sazonov, J. P. Ostriker, L. Ciotti +1
We discuss the importance of feedback via photoionization and Compton heating on the co-evolution of massive black holes (MBHs) at the center of spheroidal galaxies and their stell…
Radiative Feedback from Quasars and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
S. Yu. Sazonov, J. P. Ostriker, L. Ciotti +1
We discuss the role of feedback via photoionization and Compton heating in the co-evolution of massive black holes at the center of spheroidal galaxies and their stellar and gaseou…
A physically motivated toy model for the BH-spheroid coevolution
L. Ciotti, J. P. Ostriker, S. Yu. Sazonov
We present a summary of the results obtained with a time-dependent, one-zone toy model aimed at exploring the importance of radiative feedback on the co-evolution of massive black…
Active Galaxies and Radiative Heating
J. P. Ostriker, L. Ciotti
There is abundant evidence that heating processes in the central regions of elliptical galaxies has both prevented large-scale cooling flows and assisted in the expulsion of metal…
Collisionless evaporation from cluster elliptical galaxies: a contributor to the intracluster stellar population
V. Muccione, L. Ciotti
By means of simple numerical models we discuss whether "collisionless stellar evaporation" from cluster elliptical galaxies could be an effective mechanism for the production of in…
Galactic cannibalism and CDM density profiles
Carlo Nipoti, Tommaso Treu, Luca Ciotti +1
Using N-body simulations we show that the process of formation of the brightest cluster galaxy through dissipationless galactic cannibalism can affect the inner cluster dark matter…