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A Hydrodynamical Thermal Irradiated Wind from the Outer Thin Accretion Disk in Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-11-04 v3

Abstract

Evidently, low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) are comprised of an inner advective disk and an outer geometrically thin disk. Wind is inevitable in LLAGNs, mainly interpreted in an indirect way, also the evidence is growing for the presence of wind in the outer thin disk. We present a hydrodynamics (HD) model for wind from the outer thin disk, where the main driver is the inner disk irradiation (which is parameterized by a number xx in hydrostatic equilibrium equation) and the heating mechanism is photoionization. The model works for low-intensity irradiation or from a height zsz_s in the optically thin medium. We solve the model equations in cylindrical coordinates along the zz-axis for a given radius rr with assuming a tiny vertical speed vzv_z (cs\ll c_s sound speed). The sonic point conditions assure an isobaric regime above the sonic height (zmaxz^{max}); in addition to the height zf(zmaxz_f (\ll z^{max}), the radial pressure gradient also supports the fluid rotation, and both jointly assure a wind ejection from the zmaxz^{max} with fluid speed. The zmaxz^{max} increases with xx, and beyond a large zmaxz^{max} (say ztmaxz^{max}_t corresponding to maximum xx), there is no physical solution. We start the computation from the outer radius rothinr_o^{thin} to the inner rinthinr_{in}^{thin} with a Bondi mass accretion rate M˙Bondi\dot{M}_{Bondi}, to explore the rr dependency of the mass inflow rate M˙\dot{M} and wind properties. We constrain the model by fixing M˙\dot{M} at rinthinr_{in}^{thin} from the observations of NGC 1097 and check the feasibility of the model by comparing the energetics with the observed bolometric luminosity. The wind is an equatorial with a viewing angle i>85i>85 degrees and capable to generate red/blueshifted lines, which would be a general characteristics for LLAGNs.

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@article{arxiv.2408.00485,
  title  = {A Hydrodynamical Thermal Irradiated Wind from the Outer Thin Accretion Disk in Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei},
  author = {Nagendra Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00485},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

16 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)

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