Linking Ram Pressure and AGN in the RomulusC Simulation

Surveys of "jellyfish galaxies", galaxies morphologically transformed by ram pressure stripping, have found an overabundance of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in this population. RomulusC, a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a 10^14 solar mass galaxy cluster, offers an opportunity to test this hypothesis. We find that peaks of black hole activity punctuate the end of the ram pressure stripping process. As long as a galaxy is able to retain its gas, elevated Eddington ratios are expected for those experiencing larger amounts of ram pressure. In these simulations, the heating and outflows due to subsequent AGN feedback may serve to aid galaxy quenching in tandem with ram pressure.