Journal article
Measuring AGN Feedback with the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect
Abstract
One of the most important and poorly understood issues in structure formation is the role of outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Using large-scale cosmological simulations, we compute the impact of such outflows on the small-scale distribution of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Like gravitationally heated structures, AGN outflows induce CMB distortions through both thermal motions and peculiar velocities, by processes known …
Authors
Scannapieco E; Thacker RJ; Couchman HMP
Journal
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 678, No. 2, pp. 674–685
Publisher
American Astronomical Society
Publication Date
May 10, 2008
DOI
10.1086/528948
ISSN
0004-637X