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We perform two-dimensional and three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations to study cold clouds accelerated by radiation pressure on dust in the environment of rapidly star-forming galaxies dominated by infrared flux. We utilize…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 Dong Zhang , Shane W. Davis , Yan-Fei Jiang , James M. Stone

We report on the first phase of our study of cloud irradiation. We study irradiation by means of numerical, two-dimensional time-dependent radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of a cloud irradiated by a strong radiation. We adopt a very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Daniel Proga , Yan-Fei Jiang , James Stone , Shane Davis , Daniel Smith

We study how different opacity-temperature scalings affect the dynamical evolution of irradiated gas clouds using time-dependent, radiation-hydrodynamics (rad-HD) simulations. When clouds are optically thick, the bright side heats up and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Sergei Dyda , Daniel Proga , Christopher S Reynolds

We perform three-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations of uniform dusty gas clouds irradiated by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) to investigate the dependence of evolution of clouds on the ionization parameter $\mathcal{U}$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Daisuke Namekata , Masayuki Umemura , Kenji Hasegawa

Previous works concerning active galactic nuclei (AGN) variability (e.g., Blandford \& McKee 1982) have assumed that the emission characteristics of illuminated clouds are purely a function of the instant continuum flux to which they are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jason A. Taylor

We present calculations of the dynamics of highly ionized gas clouds that are confined by external pressure, and are ionized by AGN continuum. We focus on the gas that is seen in absorption in the X-ray spectrum of many AGN and show that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Doron Chelouche , Hagai Netzer

Most massive galaxies host a supermassive black hole at their centre. Matter accretion creates an active galactic nucleus (AGN), forming a relativistic particle wind. The wind heats and pushes the interstellar medium, producing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Martynas Laužikas , Kastytis Zubovas

In a radiatively heated and cooled medium, the thermal instability is a plausible mechanism for forming clouds, while the radiation force provides a natural acceleration, especially when ions recombine and opacity increases. Here we extend…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Daniel Proga , Tim Waters

Recent modeling of the warm absorber in active galactic nuclei has proved the usefulness of constant total (gas plus radiation) pressure models, which are highly stratified in temperature and density. We explore the consistency of those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Chevallier , B. Czerny , A. Rozanska , A. C. Goncalves

Recent X-ray observations reveal growing evidence for heating by active galactic nuclei (AGN) in clusters and groups of galaxies. AGN outflows play a crucial role in explaining the riddle of cooling flows and the entropy problem in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bruggen , M. Ruszkowski , E. Hallman

We examine the possibility of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) obscuration by dusty gas clouds that spurt out from circumnuclear starburst regions. For the purpose, the dynamical evolution of gas clouds is pursued, including the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasuyuki Watabe , Masayuki Umemura

(abridged) We present a semianalytic model of steady-state magnetically and radiatively driven disk outflows in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) consisting of a continuous wind with embedded clouds. The continuous outflow is launched from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John E. Everett

This study investigates the complex dynamics of AGN (Active Galactic Nucleus) jet-cloud interactions, particularly focusing on the impact of non-thermal particle acceleration on the resulting radiative signatures. We utilize advanced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-13 Krish Jhurani

Many studies have considered the roles of clouds, outflows, and turbulence in producing the broad emission and absorption lines in the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, these are often treated as separate or even competing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-10 Tim Waters , Hui Li

Adopting the hypothesis that the nonthermal emission of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is primarily due to the acceleration of protons, we construct a simple model in which the interplay of acceleration and losses can be studied together with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Mastichiadis J. G. Kirk

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are important drivers of galactic evolution; however, the underlying physical processes governing their properties remain uncertain. In particular, the specific cause for the generation of the broad-line region…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 James E. Owen , Douglas N. C. Lin

The hot plasma permeating clusters of galaxies often shows a central peak in the X-ray surface brightness that is coincident with a drop in entropy. This is taken as evidence for a cooling flow where the radiative cooling in the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marcus Brueggen , Christian R. Kaiser

Gamma-ray flares from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) show substantial variability on ultrafast timescales (i.e. shorter than the light crossing time of the AGN's supermassive black hole). We propose that ultrafast variability is a byproduct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-12 Emanuele Sobacchi , Tsvi Piran , Luca Comisso

Using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) hydrodynamic simulations of vertically stratified hot halo gas, we examine the conditions under which clouds can form and condense out of the hot halo medium to potentially fuel star formation in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Ryan Joung , Greg L. Bryan , Mary E. Putman

Cold clouds in hot media are quickly crushed, shredded, and then accelerated as a result of their interaction with the background gas. The persistence of cold clouds moving at substantial velocities in harsh environments is a common yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 John C. Forbes , Douglas N. C. Lin
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