PHYSICS OF THE GALAXY AND INTERSTELLAR MATTER

By JOHN TAYLOR

CONTENTS PART I AGNS, STARBURSTS AND GALAXY EVOLUTION THE EFFECTS OF MASS AND STAR-FORMATION TIMESCALE ON GALAXY EVOLUTION INTRODUCTION ESTIMATING THE STELLAR POPULATION PARAMETERS SCALING RELATIONS PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS THE IN?UENCE OF MASS STAR FORMATION INSIDE OUT SUMMARY REFERENCES SUPPRESSING CLUSTER COOLING ?OWS BY MULTIPLE AGN ACTIVITY OUTLINE OF THE MODEL RESULTS SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION STARBURST AND AGN ACTIVITY IN SPITZER-SELECTED SOURCES AT HIGH-Z SPITZER SELECTION OF HIGH-Z LUMINOUS INFRARED GALAXIES MAMBO OBSERVATIONS AND RESULTS AGN AND STARBURST MIR EMISSION CONTRIBUTIONS HOST GALAXIES AVERAGE SEDS SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS STAR FORMATION RATES IN ZCOSMOS GALAXIES HOSTING AGN FURTHER REMARKS ON COLOR–MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS OF AGN HOSTS CONCLUSION: CO-EVOLUTION OF SMBHS AND THEIR HOST GALAXIES PART II CO-EVOLUTION OF BLACK HOLES AND GALAXIES THE SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN GALAXIES AND SMBHS STANDARD SAMS, THEIR SUCCESSES AND THEIR FAILURES POSSIBLE SOLUTION FROM JOINT EVOLUTION OF QSO AND SPHEROIDS THE ABC SCENARIO ON THE ORIGIN OF HALO ASSEMBLY BIAS MEASURING ASSEMBLY BIAS IN THE QUASI-LINEAR REGIME CONCLUSIONS AGN, DOWNSIZING AND GALAXY BIMODALITY HIERARCHICAL ASSEMBLY MODELLING AGN FEEDBACK IN GALAXIES COLOUR BIMODALITY UNDERSTANDING MASS ERRORS AND COSMIC VARIANCE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PART III OUT?OWS AND RADIO GALAXIES INTERACTION AND GAS OUT?OWS IN RADIO-LOUD AGN: DISRUPTIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE EFFECTS OF RADIO JETS WHY RADIO-LOUD AGN? THE NUCLEAR REGIONS PROBED BY THE HI AND IONISED GAS MOVING TO LARGER SCALES: JET-INDUCED STAR FORMATION YOUNG RADIO SOURCES: EVOLUTION AND BROAD-BAND EMISSION THE MODEL: DYNAMICAL AND SPECTRAL EVOLUTION COMPARISON WITH BROAD-BAND SPECTRA OF GPS GALAXIES FURTHER OBSERVATIONAL SUPPORT CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS THE DUTY CYCLE OF RADIO GALAXIES AND AGN FEEDBACK 10 1 INTRODUCTION 10 2 LOCAL SAMPLE 10 3 INTERMITTENT AGN FEEDBACK IN GALAXY FORMATION 10 4 SUMMARY ENVIRONMENT OR OUT?OWS? NEW INSIGHT INTO THE ORIGIN OF NARROW ASSOCIATED QSO ABSORBERS 11 1 INTRODUCTION 11 2 USING ULTRAVIOLET NALS TO REVEAL QSO FEEDBACK 11 3 THE LINE-OF-SIGHT DISTRIBUTION OF NALS IN FRONT OF QSOS 11 4 THE 3D DISTRIBUTION OF NALS AROUND QSOS 11 5 THE CLUSTERING CONTRIBUTION TO THE LINE-OF-SIGHT EXCESS 11 6 RADIO LOUD VS RADIO QUIET 11 7 CONCLUSIONS PART IV MODELS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS: METHODS AND RESULTS PHYSICAL MODELS OF AGN FEEDBACK 12 1 INTRODUCTION 12 2 SIMULATING JET PROPAGATION IN A TWO-PHASE ISM 12 3 GLOBAL QUENCHING IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 12 4 CONCLUSIONS LARGE-SCALE EXPANSION OF AGN OUT?OWS IN A COSMOLOGICAL VOLUME 13 1 INTRODUCTION 13 2 THE NUMERICAL SETUP 13 3 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION RELATIVISTIC JETS AND THE INHOMOGENEOUS INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM 14 1 AGN FEEDBACK FROM A RADIO GALAXY PERSPECTIVE 14 2 SIMULATION CODE 14 3 ISOTROPISATION OF JET MOMENTUM 14 4 JET AND DISK SIMULATIONS 14 6 INTERACTION OF OUT?OWS WITH INDIVIDUAL CLOUDS 14 7 MAIN POINTS AGN FEEDBACK EFFECT ON INTRACLUSTER MEDIUM PROPERTIES FROM GALAXY CLUSTER HYDRODYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS 15 1 INTRODUCTION 15 2 THE SIMULATIONS 15 3 TEMPERATURE PRO?LES 15 4 METAL ENRICHMENT OF THE ICM 15 5 CONCLUSIONS PHYSICS AND FATE OF JET-RELATED EMISSION LINE REGIONS 16 1 INTRODUCTION 16 2 GLOBAL JET SIMULATIONS 16 3 LOCAL SIMULATIONS OF MULTI-PHASE TURBULENCE 16 4 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS CUSP–CORE DICHOTOMY OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES: THE ROLE OF THERMAL EVAPORATION 17 1 INTRODUCTION 17 2 THE FORMATION OF CUSPS AND CORES IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 17 3 IMPLICATIONS FOR ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES 17 4 CONCLUSIONS