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The high-ionization lines of the broad-line region (BLR) of thermal active galactic nuclei (AGNs) show blueshifts of a few hundred km/s to several thousand km/sec with respect to the low-ionization lines. This has long been thought to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 C. Martin Gaskell , Rene W. Goosmann

We test a scenario claiming that the broad absorption line (BAL) phenomenon in quasars (QSOs) is not a temporary stage of their life. In this scenario, we see the BAL effect only if the line of sight is within a spatially limited and…

Over the past half century, gas outflows and winds have been observed as asymmetric emission lines in a wide range of astrophysical contexts, including galaxies and early-type stars. While P Cygni lines are modeled and understood with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Sophia R. Flury , Edward C. Moran , Miriam Eleazer

Galactic outflows are now commonly observed in starburst and active galactic nuclei (AGN) host galaxies. Yet, there is no clear consensus on their physical driving mechanism(s). We have previously shown that AGN radiative feedback, driven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

The Broad Line Region (BLR) in AGN is composed of dense gas ($\sim 10^{11}$ cm$^{-3}$) on sub-pc scale, which absorbs about 30 per cent of the ionising continuum. The outer size of the BLR is likely set by dust sublimation, and its density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Alexei Baskin , Ari Laor

The location of warm dust producing the Mid-infrared (MIR) emission in Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is complex and not yet fully known. We explore this problem by studying how the MIR covering factor (CF_{MIR} =L_{MIR}/L_{bol})…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kai Zhang , Ting-Gui Wang , Lin Yan , Xiao-Bo Dong

Substantial evidence points to dusty, geometrically thick tori obscuring the central engines of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but so far no mechanism satisfactorily explains why cool dust in the torus remains in a puffy geometry.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-04 Chi-Ho Chan , Julian H. Krolik

We assemble a broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) ranging from optical to mid-infrared of nearby active galactic nuclei at $z < 0.4$. SED fitting analysis is performed using semi-empirical templates derived from Palomar-Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-23 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

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

The primary source of emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN), the accretion disk, is surrounded by an optically and geometrically thick dusty structure ("the so-called dusty torus"). The infrared radiation emitted by the dust is nothing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-13 Marko Stalevski , Claudio Ricci , Yoshihiro Ueda , Paulina Lira , Jacopo Fritz , Maarten Baes

Near-Eddington radiation from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) has significant dynamical influence on the surrounding dusty gas, plausibly furnishing AGNs with geometrically thick obscuration. We investigate this paradigm with radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-21 Chi-Ho Chan , Julian H. Krolik

Spectral absorption features in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have traditionally been attributed to outflowing photoionized gas located at a distance of order a parsec from the central continuum source. However, recent observations of QSO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Everett , A. Konigl , N. Arav

The co-evolution between black holes and galaxies suggests that feedback of active galactic nuclei influence host galaxies through ejecting radiative and kinetic energies to surroundings. Larger scale outflow in local universe are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Zhenzhen Li , Hongyan Zhou , Lei Hao , Xiheng Shi

The Fermi-LAT data revealed giant bubbles of emission above and below the Galactic plane with an energy spectrum significantly harder than seen from other directions. How the bubbles connect to the Galactic plane is unclear. We find that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-18 Wim de Boer , Iris Gebauer , Simon Kunz , Alexander Neumann

The Newtonian ADAF model has been generalized recently to obtain the ADIOS model that includes outflows of energy and angular momentum. The utilization of a Newtonian gravitational potential limits the ability of the ADIOS model to describe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Peter A. Becker , Prasad Subramanian , Demosthenes Kazanas

It is typically assumed that radiation pressure driven winds are accelerated to an asymptotic velocity of V ~ v_esc, where v_esc is the escape velocity from the central source. We note that this is not the case for dusty shells and clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Todd A. Thompson , Andrew C. Fabian , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray

We present observational evidences that dust in the circumnuclear region of AGNs has different properties than in the Galactic diffuse interstellar medium. By comparing the reddening of optical and infrared broad lines and the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Maiolino , A. Marconi , M. Salvati , G. Risaliti , P. Severgnini , F. La Franca , L. Vanzi

Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central source, giving rise to Seyfert 1 line spectrum for pole-on viewing and Seyfert 2 characteristics in edge-on sources. Although the observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Nenkova , Z. Ivezic , M. Elitzur

The role of star-formation driven outflows in the obscuration of the central source in the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is discussed. The outflow from a sub-parsec scale accretion disc is numerically modelled for parameters appropriate to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Nayakshin , Jorge Cuadra

Recent observations suggest that in black hole X-ray binaries jet/outflow formation is related to the hot plasma in the vicinity of the black hole, either in the form of an advection-dominated accretion flow at low accretion rates or in a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Qingwen Wu , Xinwu Cao , Luis C. Ho , Ding-Xiong Wang