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An Energetic AGN Outburst Powered by a Rapidly Spinning Supermassive Black Hole or an Accreting Ultramassive Black Hole
B. R. McNamara, F. Kazemzadeh, D. A. Rafferty +4
Powering the 10^62 erg nuclear outburst in the MS0735.6+7421 cluster central galaxy by accretion implies that its supermassive black hole (SMBH) grew by ~6x10^8 solar masses over t…
Conduction and the Star-Formation Threshold in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
G. M. Voit, K. W. Cavagnolo, M. Donahue +3
Current models of galaxy evolution suggest that feedback from active galactic nuclei is needed to explain the high-luminosity cutoff in the galaxy luminosity function. Exactly how…
The Growth of Black Holes and Bulges at the Cores of Cooling Flows
D. A. Rafferty, B. R. McNamara, P. E. J. Nulsen +1
Central cluster galaxies (cDs) in cooling flows are growing rapidly through gas accretion and star formation. At the same time, AGN outbursts fueled by accretion onto supermassive…
AGN Heating through Cavities and Shocks
P. E. J. Nulsen, C. Jones, W. R. Forman +5
Three comments are made on AGN heating of cooling flows. A simple physical argument is used to show that the enthalpy of a buoyant radio lobe is converted to heat in its wake. Thus…
The Starburst in the Abell 1835 Cluster Central Galaxy: A Case Study of Galaxy Formation Regulated by an Outburst from a Supermassive Black Hole
B. R. McNamara, D. A. Rafferty, L. Birzan +6
We present an optical, X-ray, and radio analysis of the starburst in the Abell 1835 cluster's central cD galaxy. The dense gas surrounding the galaxy is radiating X-rays with a lum…
Heating a Distant Galaxy Cluster by Giant X-ray Cavities and Large-Scale Shock Fronts
B. R. McNamara, P. E. J. Nulsen, M. W. Wise +4
We report the discovery of a pair of giant cavities, each nearly 200 kpc in diameter, embedded in the gaseous halo of the redshift z=0.216 galaxy cluster MS0735.6+7421. The cavitie…