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most citedFeedback Heating by Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies

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38 papers

astro-ph.GA2024

Cold Filaments Formed in Hot Wake Flows Uplifted by Active Galactic Nucleus Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters

Xiaodong Duan, Fulai Guo

Multi-wavelength observations indicate that the intracluster medium in some galaxy clusters contains cold filaments, while their formation mechanism remains debated. Using hydrodyn…

astro-ph.IM2024

Optimization of performance of the KM2A full array using the Crab Nebula

LHAASO collaboration

The full array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has been in operation since July 2021. For its kilometer-square array (KM2A), we have optimized the select…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 19 cited

Scientific Objectives of the Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) Mission

Joel Bregman, Renyue Cen, Yang Chen +51

The Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) is a proposed space-based X-ray telescope for detecting X-ray emissions from the hot gas content in our universe. With its unprecedented spa…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 5 cited

The detections of inflowing gas from narrow absorption lines at the parsec scale

Zhi-Fu Chen, Minfeng Gu, Zhicheng He +4

Inflows at the dusty torus and smaller scales is crucial to investigate the process of supermassive black hole accretion. However, only few cases of inflowing gas at small scales h…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 7 cited

Probing the Halo Gas Distribution in the Inner Galaxy with Fermi Bubble Observations

Ruiyu Zhang, Fulai Guo

The hot halo gas distribution in the inner Milky Way (MW) contains key fossil records of the past energetic feedback processes in the Galactic center. Here we adopt a variety of sp…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 31 cited

HUBS: A dedicated hot circumgalactic medium explorer

Wei Cui

The Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) mission is proposed to study "missing" baryons in the universe. Unlike dark matter, baryonic matter is made of elements in the periodic tabl…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

Years Delayed X-ray Afterglows of TDEs Originated from Wind-Torus Interactions

Guobin Mou, Liming Dou, Ning Jiang +8

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occurred in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are a special class of sources with outstanding scientific significance. TDEs can generate ultrafast winds,…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 3 cited

Probing the Physics of Mechanical AGN Feedback with Radial Elongations of X-ray Cavities

Fulai Guo

Mechanical active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback plays a key role in massive galaxies, galaxy groups and clusters. However, the energy content of AGN jets that mediate this feedba…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

Constraining the Milky Way Mass with Its Hot Gaseous Halo

Fulai Guo, Ruiyu Zhang, Xiang-Er Fang

We propose a novel method to constrain the Milky Way (MW) mass with its corona temperature observations. For a given corona density profile, one can derive its temper…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 8 cited

On the Energy Coupling Efficiency of AGN Outbursts in Galaxy Clusters

Xiaodong Duan, Fulai Guo

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) jets are believed to be important in solving the cooling flow problem in the intracluster medium (ICM), while the detailed mechanism is still in debat…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 43 cited

Simulating the Fermi Bubbles as Forward Shocks Driven by AGN Jets

Ruiyu Zhang, Fulai Guo

The Fermi bubbles are two giant bubbles in gamma rays lying above and below the Galactic center (GC). Despite numerous studies on the bubbles, their origin and emission mechanism r…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 6 cited

On the Cooling Flow Problem in the Gaseous Halo of the Milky Way

Xiang-Er Fang, Fulai Guo, Ye-Fei Yuan

Theoretical and observational arguments suggest that there is a large amount of hot ( K), diffuse gas residing in the Milky Way's halo, while its total mass and spatial…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 2 cited

Numerical study of active galactic nucleus feedback in an elliptical galaxy with {\it MACER}

Feng Yuan, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, DooSoo Yoon +5

This paper summarizes our recent works of studying AGN feedback in an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing high-resolution hydrodynamical numerical simulations. Bondi radius is…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 17 cited

Metal-rich trailing outflows uplifted by AGN bubbles in galaxy clusters

Xiaodong Duan, Fulai Guo

Recent Chandra X-ray observations of many galaxy clusters find evidence for hot metal-rich outflows preferentially aligned with the large-scale axes of X-ray cavities with typical…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 6 cited

On the Efficiency of Thermal Conduction in Galaxy Clusters

Xiang-Er Fang, Fulai Guo, Ye-Fei Yuan +1

Galaxy clusters host a large reservoir of diffuse plasma with radially-varying temperature profiles. The efficiency of thermal conduction in the intracluster medium (ICM) is compli…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 136 cited

Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback in an Elliptical Galaxy with the Most Updated AGN Physics (I): Low-angular Momentum Case

Feng Yuan, Doosoo Yoon, Ya-Ping Li +3

We investigate the effects of AGN feedback on the cosmological evolution of an isolated elliptical galaxy by performing two-dimensional high-resolution hydrodynamical numerical sim…

astro-ph.GA2017

The peculiar filamentary HI structure of NGC 6145

Enci Wang, Jing Wang, Xu Kong +5

In this paper, we report the peculiar HI morphology of the cluster spiral galaxy NGC 6145, which has a 150 kpc HI filament on one side that is nearly parallel to its major axis. Th…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

Reversing cooling flows with AGN jets: shock waves, rarefaction waves, and trailing outflows

Fulai Guo, Xiaodong Duan, Ye-Fei Yuan

The cooling flow problem is one of the central problems in galaxy clusters, and active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is considered to play a key role in offsetting cooling. Howev…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 4 cited

The AGN Jet Model of the Fermi Bubbles

Fulai Guo

The nature and origin of the Fermi bubbles detected in the inner Galaxy remain elusive. In this paper, we briefly discuss some recent theoretical and observational developments, wi…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 26 cited

On the Importance of Very-light Internally-subsonic AGN Jets in Radio-mode AGN Feedback

Fulai Guo

Radio-mode AGN feedback plays a key role in the evolution of galaxy groups and clusters. Its physical origin lies in the kpc-scale interaction of AGN jets with the intracluster med…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 31 cited

The Shape of X-ray Cavities in Galaxy Clusters: Probing Jet Properties and Viscosity

Fulai Guo

X-ray observations of galaxy clusters have detected numerous X-ray cavities, evolved from the interaction of AGN jets with the intracluster medium (ICM) and providing compelling ev…

astro-ph.GA2014★ 5 cited

Connecting Star Formation Quenching with Galaxy Structure and Supermassive Black Holes through Gravitational Heating of Cooling Flows

Fulai Guo

Recent observations suggested that star formation quenching in galaxies is related to galaxy structure. Here we propose a new mechanism to explain the physical origin of this corre…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 15 cited

Hot versus Cold: the Dichotomy in Spherical Accretion of Cooling Flows onto Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies, Galaxy Groups and Clusters

Fulai Guo, William G. Mathews

Feedback heating from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has been commonly invoked to suppress cooling flows predicted in hot gas in elliptical galaxies, galaxy groups and clusters. Pre…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 120 cited

Cosmic Ray Streaming in Clusters of Galaxies

Joshua Wiener, S Peng Oh, Fulai Guo

The observed bimodality in radio luminosity in galaxy clusters is puzzling. We investigate the possibility that cosmic-ray (CR) streaming in the intra-cluster medium can 'switch of…