We present a newly discovered correlation between the wind outflow velocity and the X-ray luminosity in the luminous (Lbol∼1047ergs−1) nearby (z=0.184) quasar PDS\,456. All the contemporary XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and Suzaku observations from 2001--2014 were revisited and we find that the centroid energy of the blueshifted Fe\,K absorption profile increases with luminosity. This translates into a correlation between the wind outflow velocity and the hard X-ray luminosity (between 7--30\,keV) where we find that vw/c∝L7−30γ where γ=0.22±0.04. We also show that this is consistent with a wind that is predominately radiatively driven, possibly resulting from the high Eddington ratio of PDS\,456.
@article{arxiv.1708.03546,
title = {Evidence for a radiatively driven disc-wind in PDS 456?},
author = {G. A. Matzeu and J. N. Reeves and V. Braito and E. Nardini and D. E. McLaughlin and A. P. Lobban and F. Tombesi and M. T. Costa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03546},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letter