How mechanical AGN feedback couples to multiphase condensation across scales remains a problem in galaxy groups and clusters. It is unclear how jets reshape the chaotic cold accretion (CCA) cycle and regulate black-hole fueling. BlackHoleWeather aims to build a unified description of the AGN baryon cycle across horizon, galactic, and group scales. Here we focus on how weather states shape the morphology and thermodynamics of jet-regulated CCA. We perform two hydrodynamical simulations of a turbulent, radiatively cooling galaxy-group atmosphere with self-regulated AGN feedback. The runs are initialized in two turbulence regimes and evolved with a kinetic mass-loaded jet. The jet prevents cooling via heating, but anisotropically reorganizes condensation through compression, entrainment, and turbulent mixing. In the stronger-turbulence case, condensation starts later but becomes extended, filamentary, and mixed, with a broader hot-warm-cold bridge, a porous cocoon, and burst-dominated fueling. This run evolves toward a cloud-dominated state with inefficient central accretion. In the weaker-turbulence case, condensation starts earlier and remains coherent and centrally confined, yielding a regular cocoon, a longer-lived inner cold reservoir with sustained fueling. In both runs, condensation is suppressed inside the jet channel and survives in the surrounding atmosphere and along the jet-ambient interface. Once condensation begins, SMBH fueling becomes super-Bondi. These results extend CCA from a pure cooling + turbulence problem to a jet-regulated weather process. Ambient turbulence acts as a control parameter, producing an extended stormy phase, a centrally retained rainy cycle, and, in the high-turbulence case, a later cloudy state with inefficient central fueling. The meso scale emerges as the layer linking halo thermodynamics to SMBH feeding within the broader BlackHoleWeather framework.

BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Morphology and thermodynamics / Cammelli, V., Gaspari, M., Piana, O., Barbani, F., Stel, G., Brustio, D.M., Olivares, V., Salvestrini, F., Danehkar, A., Reefe, M., Temi, P., Maccagni, F.M., Tombesi, F., Fournier, M.. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - (2026), pp. 1-28. [10.48550/arxiv.2605.27503]

BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Morphology and thermodynamics

Vieri Cammelli;Massimo Gaspari;Olmo Piana;Filippo Barbani;Giovanni Stel;Davide M. Brustio;
2026

Abstract

How mechanical AGN feedback couples to multiphase condensation across scales remains a problem in galaxy groups and clusters. It is unclear how jets reshape the chaotic cold accretion (CCA) cycle and regulate black-hole fueling. BlackHoleWeather aims to build a unified description of the AGN baryon cycle across horizon, galactic, and group scales. Here we focus on how weather states shape the morphology and thermodynamics of jet-regulated CCA. We perform two hydrodynamical simulations of a turbulent, radiatively cooling galaxy-group atmosphere with self-regulated AGN feedback. The runs are initialized in two turbulence regimes and evolved with a kinetic mass-loaded jet. The jet prevents cooling via heating, but anisotropically reorganizes condensation through compression, entrainment, and turbulent mixing. In the stronger-turbulence case, condensation starts later but becomes extended, filamentary, and mixed, with a broader hot-warm-cold bridge, a porous cocoon, and burst-dominated fueling. This run evolves toward a cloud-dominated state with inefficient central accretion. In the weaker-turbulence case, condensation starts earlier and remains coherent and centrally confined, yielding a regular cocoon, a longer-lived inner cold reservoir with sustained fueling. In both runs, condensation is suppressed inside the jet channel and survives in the surrounding atmosphere and along the jet-ambient interface. Once condensation begins, SMBH fueling becomes super-Bondi. These results extend CCA from a pure cooling + turbulence problem to a jet-regulated weather process. Ambient turbulence acts as a control parameter, producing an extended stormy phase, a centrally retained rainy cycle, and, in the high-turbulence case, a later cloudy state with inefficient central fueling. The meso scale emerges as the layer linking halo thermodynamics to SMBH feeding within the broader BlackHoleWeather framework.
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BlackHoleWeather -- Jet-regulated chaotic cold accretion across the meso scale: Morphology and thermodynamics / Cammelli, V., Gaspari, M., Piana, O., Barbani, F., Stel, G., Brustio, D.M., Olivares, V., Salvestrini, F., Danehkar, A., Reefe, M., Temi, P., Maccagni, F.M., Tombesi, F., Fournier, M.. - In: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS. - ISSN 0004-6361. - (2026), pp. 1-28. [10.48550/arxiv.2605.27503]
Cammelli, Vieri; Gaspari, Massimo; Piana, Olmo; Barbani, Filippo; Stel, Giovanni; Brustio, Davide M.; Olivares, Valeria; Salvestrini, Francesco; Daneh...espandi
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