AGN & Energy Flows Workshop

AGN & Energy Flows is a workshop aimed at connecting theorists and observers to develop collaborations that can tackle some key questions in galaxy-black hole co-evolution. We are gathering a focused group of astronomers with key expertise in selected areas and hope to use this as a launching pad for more in-depth collaborations and projects.

This workshop (and future projects) will focus on tracing the flow (and observational impact) of energy released by AGN from sub-kpc scales to the intragroup medium. We are bringing together observers across the electromagnetic spectrum with theorists from the CCA and beyond to tackle a set of key questions:

1. How does energy from AGN couple to, or escape from, the ISM, CGM and IGrM?
2. What is the observational impact of these energy flows on sub-kpc to Mpc scales?
3. No current model can replicate all key thermodynamic observables of the IGrM at the same time – how can we make progress to solve this?

We believe these questions will help to unlock a better understanding of how galaxies and black holes co-regulate from the perspective of energy (rather than mass). Theoretically, energy is more fundamental in this regulation process, but harder to quantify observationally.

The motivating goal of this workshop is to spark new collaborations between theorists and observers working across wavelengths and spatial scales. For this reason, we will encourage participants to focus their contributions on open problems and ideas for future directions in their subfields related to tracing AGN energy flows, rather than solely on recent results. The program will include ample time for both structured and informal breakout discussions, with the aim of seeding collaborative efforts that extend beyond the workshop itself.