Speaker:	Aurora Simionescu (SRON)
Title:	Fire on ice: the complex relationship between supermassive black hole feedback and the cold and cooling gas in giant elliptical galaxies
Date (JST):	Wed, Feb 12, 2020, 15:30 - 16:30
Place:	Seminar Room A
Related File:	2510.pdf
Abstract:	Supermassive black holes are the engines that drive the evolution of the most massive galaxies in the Universe. A tight feedback loop that is yet to be understood in detail ensures a delicate balance between the heating driven by SMBH jets and radiative cooling, thus quenching star formation. I will discuss the role of low-temperature molecular and atomic gas clouds, traced by their CO, [CII], and Halpha nebular line emission, in this feedback loop, focusing on how their mass and kinematics are affected by the SMBH.

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