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Evidence for a radiatively driven disc-wind in PDS 456?

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-12-27 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present a newly discovered correlation between the wind outflow velocity and the X-ray luminosity in the luminous (Lbol1047ergs1L_{\rm bol}\sim10^{47}\,\rm erg\,s^{-1}) nearby (z=0.184z=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/cL730γv_{\rm w}/c \propto L_{7-30}^{\gamma} where γ=0.22±0.04\gamma=0.22\pm0.04. 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.

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@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}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letter

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