When:
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT
Where: Technological Institute, F160, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Liz Lwanga
(847) 491-3645
Group: Physics and Astronomy Astrophysics Seminars
Category: Academic
Title: AGN feedback in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
Speaker: Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Université de Montréal
Host: Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Abstract: The last few decades have shown us that radio jets originating from supermassive black holes can interact strongly with their surrounding medium. During this talk, I will review the current status of this field, known as AGN feedback, while focusing on the most massive black holes in the Universe, those that lie in Brightest Cluster Galaxies, the central dominant galaxies in galaxy clusters. I will review the physics behind these interactions and then focus on the evolution of radio feedback over cosmic time while presenting new results from clusters discovered via the South Pole Telescope.
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Astrophysics