title: Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in galaxy formation
creator: Weinberger, Rainer
subject: 520
subject: 520 Astronomy and allied sciences
description: Supermassive black holes play a key role in modern galaxy formation research. They are conjectured to be present in almost all massive galaxies, and through the release of enormous amounts of energy triggered by gas accretion, they are able to substantially change the properties of the host galaxy. To which extent and how the interaction mechanisms work is an open question. In this thesis, I review the current state of galaxy formation research with a focus on cosmological simulations of structure formation as well as the basic theories of supermassive black holes as far as they are important for galaxy formation. Subsequently, I discuss a new model for black hole growth and feedback in cosmological simulations, along with its application in large cosmological volume simulations. I show how supermassive black holes affect the formation and evolution of their host galaxy as well as their own growth. Furthermore, I present a model for supermassive black hole jets in a galaxy cluster environment. Applying this model, I study the coupling between the jet and the surrounding intra-cluster gas.
date: 2018
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/24003/1/thesis_RainerWeinberger_final.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00024003
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-240032
identifier:   Weinberger, Rainer  (2018) Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in galaxy formation.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/24003/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html
language: eng