Galaxy and black hole co-evolution in synthetic galaxy catalogues

Abstract

In this thesis a model of galaxy formation is built and added to a newly developed online virtual observatory infrastructure. The galaxy model includes a new physical description of active galactic nuclei jet feedback and its evolution. Mock observations are constructed with the virtual observatory and compared to real observations to study the properties of AGN. These mocks make predictions for upcoming galaxy surveys and can be used to interpret past survey results and other theoretical work