Abstract
There is growing observational evidence of high-redshift quasars launching
energetic, fast outflows, but the effects that these have on their host
galaxies is poorly understood. We employ the moving-mesh code AREPO to study
the feedback from a quasar that has grown to $10^9 M_ødot$ by $z 5$
and the impact that this has on its host galaxy. Our simulations use a
super-Lagrangian refinement technique to increase the accuracy with which the
interface of the quasar-driven wind and the surrounding gas is resolved. We
find that the feedback injected in these simulations is less efficient at
removing gas from the galaxy than in previous work using the same feedback
strength, and that this leads to the growth of a massive, rotationally
supported, star-forming disc, co-existing with a powerful quasar-driven
outflow. The properties of our host galaxy, including the kinematical structure
of the gaseous disc and of the outflow, are in good agreement with current
observations. Upcoming ALMA and JWST observations will be an excellent test of
our model and will provide further clues as to the variance in properties of
high-redshift quasar hosts.
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