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Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Weixiao Wang , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

Powerful winds driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to play a fundamental role in the evolution of both supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, quenching star formation and explaining the tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Francesco Tombesi

Winds play a significant role in active galactic nuclei feedback process. Previous simulations studying winds only focus on a small dynamical range. Therefore, it is unknown how far the winds can go and what the properties of the winds will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Yi Zhu , De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Feng Yuan , Wen-Bin Lin

Various observations are revealing the widespread occurrence of fast and powerful winds in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that are distinct from relativistic jets, likely launched from accretion disks and interacting strongly with the gas of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Ruo-Yu Liu , Kohta Murase , Susumu Inoue , Chong Ge , Xiang-Yu Wang

We perform multi-dimensional radiative transfer simulations to compute spectra for a hydrodynamical simulation of a line-driven accretion disk wind from an active galactic nucleus. The synthetic spectra confirm expectations from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 S. A. Sim , D. Proga , L. Miller , K. S. Long , T. J. Turner

To understand how the circumstellar environments of post-AGB stars develop into planetary nebulae, we initiate a systematic study of 2D axisymmetric hydrodynamic simulations of protoplanetary nebula (pPN) with a modified ZEUS code. The aim…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-08 Igor Novikov , Michael Smith

We consider the stability of an accretion disk wind to cloud formation when subject to a central radiation force. For a vertical launch velocity profile that is Keplerian or flatter and the presence of a significant radiation pressure, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Y. Poludnenko , E. G. Blackman , A. Frank

We consider a sample of type-I active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were observed by Chandra/HETG and resulted in high signal-to-noise grating spectra, which we study in detail. All objects show signatures for very high ionization outflows.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-19 Doron Chelouche

We predict the observational signatures of galaxy scale outflows powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Most of the emission is produced by the forward shock driven into the ambient interstellar medium (ISM) rather than by the reverse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jesse Nims , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

The luminous narrow line Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143 was the first non-BAL AGN to reveal a powerful ionized wind, based on early observations with ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory. Subsequent observations, mainly with XMM-Newton and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Ken Pounds , Kim Page

Flows driven by photons have been studied for almost a century, and a quantitative description of the radiative forces on atoms and ions is important for understanding a wide variety of systems with outflows and accretion disks, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-19 Aylecia S. Lattimer , Steven R. Cranmer

We present hydrodynamical simulations of major mergers of galaxies and study the effects of winds produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) on interstellar gas in the AGN's host galaxy. We consider winds with initial velocities ~ 10,000 km/s…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jackson DeBuhr , Eliot Quataert , Chung-Pei Ma

In radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) were detected at the inclination angle of $\sim10^{\rm o}$--$70^{\rm o}$ away from jets. Except for the inclination angle of UFOs, the UFOs in radio-loud AGNs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Xiao-Hong Yang

An integral part of the Unified Model for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is an axisymmetric obscuring medium, which is commonly depicted as a torus of gas and dust surrounding the central engine. However, a robust, dynamical model of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. K. Keating , J. E. Everett , S. C. Gallagher , R. P. Deo

Partial dust obscuration in active galactic nuclei (AGN) has been proposed as a potential explanation for some cases of AGN variability. The dust-gas mixture present in AGN tori is accelerated by radiation pressure, leading to the launching…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-08 Nadine H. Soliman , Philip F. Hopkins

Formed in the aftermath of a core-collapse supernova or neutron star merger, a hot proto-neutron star (PNS) launches an outflow driven by neutrino heating lasting for up to tens of seconds. Though such winds are considered potential sites…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-08 Dhruv K. Desai , Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

We present a self-consistent, semi-analytical dynamical model of disk driven outflows in AGNs that are accelerated by a combination of magnetic stresses and radiation pressure. This model will make it possible to examine scenarios in which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. E. Everett , A. Konigl , J. F. Kartje

Observations show that winds can be driven from the innermost region (inside a 50 Schwarschild radius) of a thin disk. It is interesting to study the winds launched from the innermost region. A hot corona above the black hole (BH) thin disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu , Qi-Xiu Li

The detection of dusty winds dominating the infrared emission of AGN on parsec scales has revealed the limitations of traditional radiative transfer models based on a toroidal distribution of dusty gas. A new, more complex, dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-28 Marta Venanzi , Sebastian Hönig , David Williamson

We present three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of magnetized gas clouds accelerated by hot winds. We initialize gas clouds with tangled internal magnetic fields and show that this field suppresses the disruption of the cloud:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael McCourt , Ryan M. O'Leary , Ann-Marie Madigan , Eliot Quataert