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We investigate the spectral features of accretion flows composed of an outer cool, optically thick disk and inner hot, optically thin, advection dominated accretion flows (ADAF) within the framework of disk and corona with mass evaporation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Erlin Qiao , B. F. Liu

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

The great power offered by photoionization models of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission-line regions has long been mitigated by the fact that very little is known about the spectral energy distribution (SED) between the Lyman limit,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Gary Ferland , Chris Done , Chichuan Jin , Hermine Landt , Martin Ward

Mrk 590 is a Changing Look AGN currently in an unusual repeat X-ray and UV flaring state. Here, we report on deep X-ray observations with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and NICER, obtained at a range of X-ray flux levels. We detect a prominent soft…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-18 Daniel Lawther , Marianne Vestergaard , Sandra Raimundo , Xiaohui Fan , Jun Yi Koay

abridged: We use XSCORT, together with the hydrodynamic accretion disc wind simulation from Proga & Kallman (2004), to calculate the impact that the accretion disk wind has on the X-ray spectrum from a 1E8 solar mass black hole Active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 N. J. Schurch , C. Done , D. Proga

We report the results of a spectral analysis over the range 0.1-200 keV performed on the dipping source X 1822-371 observed by BeppoSAX. We find the best fit to the continuum using a partially covered Comptonization model, due to scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , N. R. Robba

We consider the fuelling of the central massive black hole in Active Galactic Nuclei, through an inhomogeneous accretion flow. Performing simple analytical treatments, we show that shocks between elements (clumps) forming the accretion flow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Ishibashi , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

It has been recently shown that transonic electron positron fluid is the least relativistic, compared to the fluid containing finite proportion of baryons. We compute spectra from these flows in general relativity (GR) including the effect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-02 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Sudip Garain , Himadri Ghosh

The lack of unambiguous detections of atomic features in the X-ray spectra of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has proven a hindrance in diagnosing the nature of the accretion flow. The possible association of spectral residuals at soft…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Matthew J. Middleton , Dominic J. Walton , Andrew Fabian , Timothy P. Roberts , Lucy Heil , Ciro Pinto , Gemma Anderson , Andrew Sutton

We present self-similar solutions for advection -dominated accretion flows with thermal conduction in the presence of outflows. Possible effects of outflows on the accretion flow are parametrized and a saturated form of thermal conduction,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri

Striking similarities have been seen between accretion signatures of Galactic X-ray binary (XRB) systems and active galactic nuclei (AGN). XRB spectral states show a V-shaped correlation between X-ray spectral hardness and Eddington ratio…

Data derived from general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion onto black holes can be used as input to a postprocessing scheme that predicts the radiated spectrum. Combining a relativistic Compton scattering radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-03 Rongrong Liu , Chris Nagele , Julian H Krolik , Brooks E Kinch , Jeremy Schnittman

We develop a new spectral model for the broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). This includes an outer standard disc, an inner warm Comptonising region to produce the soft X-ray excess and a hot corona.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-01 Aya Kubota , Chris Done

Rapid flux changes in the X-ray emission from active galactic nuclei are commonly observed. The power-density spectra show a pseudo power-law form with a turnover at low frequencies and a high frequency break, similar to galactic black-hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Nandra

We study the thermal structure of the widely adopted two-dimensional advection dominated accretion flow (ADAF) of Narayan & Yi (1995a). The critical radius for a given mass accretion rate, outside of which the optically thin hot solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Myeong-Gu Park , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Two families of models are currently considered to describe an accretion flow onto black holes and production of the observed X-ray radiation: (1) a standard cold accretion disk with a hot corona above it and (2) an outer truncated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. Sobolewska , A. Siemiginowska , P. T. Zycki

Gamma-ray luminosities of some quasar-associated blazars imply jet powers reaching values comparable to the accretion power even if assuming very strong Doppler boosting and very high efficiency of gamma-ray production. With much lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Marek Sikora , Mateusz Janiak , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Greg M. Madejski , Rafał Moderski

We perform simulations to study the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) radiation and wind feedback on the properties of slowly rotating accretion flow at parsec scale. We find that when only radiative feedback is considered, outflows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang

Previous research centered on the hydrodynamics in X-ray pulsar accretion columns has largely focused on the single-fluid model, in which the super-Eddington luminosity inside the column decelerates the flow to rest at the stellar surface.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Brent F. West , Kenneth D. Wolfram , Peter A. Becker

(Abridged) We present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of slowly rotating gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole and is irradiated by a thin UV accretion disc and a spherical X-ray corona. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga