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Markarian 817 is a bright and variable Seyfert-1.2 active galactic nucleus (AGN). X-ray monitoring of Mrk 817 with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in 2022 revealed that the source flux had declined to a lower level than recorded at any…

The 2024 X-ray/UV observation campaign of NGC 3783, led by XRISM, revealed the launch of an ultrafast outflow (UFO) with a radial velocity of 0.19c (57000 km/s). This event is synchronized with the sharp decay, within less than half a day,…

We present a UV spectroscopic study of ionized outflows in 21 active galactic nuclei (AGN), observed with the HST. The targets of the SUBWAYS sample were selected with the aim to probe the parameter space of the underexplored AGN between…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) accreting at rates close to the Eddington limit can host radiatively driven mildly relativistic outflows. Some of these X-ray absorbing but powerful outflows may produce strong shocks resulting in a significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Jun Yang , Tao An , Fang Zheng , Willem A. Baan , Zsolt Paragi , Prashanth Mohan , Zhongli Zhang , Xiang Liu

We obtained medium-resolution ultraviolet (UV) spectra between 1150 and 1450 Angstroms of the four UV-bright, infrared (IR)-luminous starburst galaxies IRAS F08339+6517, NGC 3256, NGC 6090, and NGC 7552 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Claus Leitherer , Rupali Chandar , Christy Tremonti , Aida Wofford , Daniel Schaerer

Ongoing studies with XMM-Newton have shown that powerful accretion disc winds, as revealed through highly-ionised Fe\,K-shell absorption at E>=6.7 keV, are present in a significant fraction of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the local…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-02 J. Gofford , J. N. Reeves , D. E. McLaughlin , V. Braito , T. J. Turner , F. Tombesi , M. Cappi

Galactic outflows driven by rapidly-accreting quasars at high redshift are widely expected to play a key role in the short- and long-term future evolution of their host galaxies. Using new and archival ALMA data, we observed the OH 119um…

Evidence indicates that supermassive black holes exist at the centers of most galaxies. Their mass correlates with the galactic bulge mass, suggesting a co-evolution with their host galaxies, most likely through powerful winds. X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 XRISM collaboration

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 investigate the ionized gas kinematics relationship with X-ray, radio and accreting properties using a sample of 348 nearby ($z < 0.4$) SDSS-FIRST-X-ray detected AGNs. X-ray properties of our sample are obtained from XMM-$Newton$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-01 Ashraf Ayubinia , Yongquan Xue , Jong-Hak Woo , Huynh Anh Nguyen Le , Zhicheng He , Halime Miraghaei , Xiaozhi Lin

The time lag between soft and hard X-ray photons has been observed in many active galactic nuclei (AGN) and can reveal the accretion process and geometry around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). High-frequency Fe K and soft lags are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-04 Yerong Xu , Ciro Pinto , Erin Kara , Stefano Bianchi , William Alston , Francesco Tombesi

The properties of large-scale galactic outflows, such as their kinetic energy and momentum rates, correlate with the luminosity of the active galactic nucleus (AGN). This is well explained by the wind-driven outflow model, where a fraction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 Kastytis Zubovas , Emanuele Nardini

Contemporary radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulation of the AGNs predicts presence of the hot and strong accretion disk wind, which gets unstable far from the central region and turns into gas clumps. These inner-wind and outer clumps may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Takuya Midooka , Misaki Mizumoto , Ken Ebisawa

When a black hole accretes close to the Eddington limit, the astrophysical jet is often accompanied by radiatively driven, wide-aperture and mildly relativistic winds. Powerful winds can produce significant non-thermal radio emission via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Jun Yang , Zsolt Paragi , Emanuele Nardini , Willem A. Baan , Lulu Fan , Prashanth Mohan , Eskil Varenius , Tao An

We present quasi-simultaneous ASCA and RXTE observations of the most luminous known AGN in the local (z<0.3) Universe, the recently discovered quasar PDS 456. Multiwavelength observations have been conducted which show that PDS 456 has a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. N. Reeves , P. T. O'Brien , S. Vaughan , D. Law-Green , M. Ward , C. Simpson , K. Pounds , R. Edelson

The analysis of X-ray absorption features in active galactic nuclei (AGN) provides a wealth of information about the physical properties of the matter surrounding supermassive black holes (SMBHs). While standard correlations between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 R. Middei , E. Piconcelli , E. Nardini , A. Marinucci , M. Laurenti , A. Luminari , A. Trindade Falcão , A. Tortosa , M. Perri , S. Puccetti , D. Ł. Król , L. Borrelli

Bright AGN frequently show ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) with outflow velocities vout ~0.1c. These outflows may be the source of AGN feedback on their host galaxies sought by galaxy formation modellers. The exact effect of the outflows on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Martin A. Bourne , Sergei Nayakshin

We present the results of an analysis of data from XMM-Newton and CHANDRA observations of the high luminosity narrow-line quasar PG 1404+226. We confirm a strong soft X-ray excess in the X-ray spectrum and we find rapid variability (a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Surajit Dasgupta , A. R. Rao , G. C. Dewangan , V. K. Agrawal

We present a census of ionized gas outflows in 599 normal galaxies at redshift 0.6<z<2.7, mostly based on integral field spectroscopy of Ha, [NII], and [SII] line emission. The sample fairly homogeneously covers the main sequence of…

The Seyfert Galaxy Mrk 335 is known for its frequent changes of flux and spectral shape in the X-ray band occurred during recent years. These variations may be explained by the onset of a wind that previous, non-contemporaneous…