AGN jet power and feedback characterised by Bondi accretion in brightest cluster galaxies

Yutaka Fujita, Nozomu Kawakatu, Isaac Shlosman

(Abridged) We propose a new method to estimate the Bondi (hot gas) accretion rates, \dot M_B, onto the supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centres of elliptical galaxies. It ca…