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Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN), where a fraction of the luminous energy output is injected into the host galaxy, driving multiphase outflows, is a necessary ingredient in galaxy evolution models, explaining the mass function, colours and star formation histories of galaxies. Until recently, numerical cosmological simulations would simply inject the AGN energy in an ad-hoc manner, tuning the feedback efficiency to reproduce the main properties of the observed galaxy population. Modern simulations (e.g. IllustrisTNG and Romulus), however, are reaching mass and spatial resolution where sub-galactic processes can be resolved, opening an opportunity to investigate AGN outflows in unprecedented detail. At the same time, new multi-wavelength sensitive observations (e.g. ALMA, MUSE and large-scale IFU surveys such as MaNGA, CALIFA, SAMI) are finding ubiquitous multiphase AGN outflows with diverse morphological, kinematic, and physical properties, which can impact the host galaxy well beyond the central kiloparsecs. Moreover, major progress in this area is expected in the coming years from forthcoming cutting-edge facilities (JWST, ELT, GMT, TMT).

Our symposium will bring together researchers working on outflow observations, theoretical models and numerical simulations, with the aim to increase the understanding of how outflows are launched, how they propagate throughout the host galaxy and what effects they have on the interstellar and circumgalactic scales.

(Cover image credit: ESO)

Programme

The programme of the symposium will be divided into three parts of roughly equal length:

• The processes (e.g. launching mechanisms, environments, etc.) responsible for the observed variety of multiphase AGN outflows
• The propagation and energetics of AGN outflows and the interplay between the different phases
• The impact of multiphase AGN outflows on their host galaxies from the interstellar to the circumgalactic medium scales

Invited speakers

• Susanne Aalto (Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Tiago Costa (MPIA, Garching, Germany)
• Andrew King (Leicester, UK)
• Sophie Koudmani (IoA, Cambridge, UK)
• Anna Lia Longinotti (UNAM, Mexico)
• Annalisa Pillepich (MPIA, Garching, Germany)
• Jonathan Stern (Tel Aviv, Israel)
• Clive Tadhunter (Sheffield, UK)
• Nadia Zakamska (JHU, Baltimore, USA)

Scientific organisers

• Kastytis Zubovas (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania; chair)
• Manuela Bischetti (Astronomical Observatory of Trieste, Italy; co-chair)
• Claudia Cicone (University of Oslo, Norway)
• Alex Richings (Durham University, UK)
• Rebecca Smethurst (University of Oxford, UK)

Contact

kastytis.zubovas @ ftmc.lt