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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 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

More than half of all low-redshift AGN exhibit UV and X-ray absorption by highly ionized gas. The observed UV and X-ray absorption lines are almost always blue-shifted at velocities of hundreds of km/s, indicating that the absorbing gas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerard A. Kriss

AGN-driven outflows are considered as one of the processes driving the co-evolution of supermassive black holes with their host galaxies. We present integral field spectroscopy of six Type 2 AGNs at z < 0.1, which are selected as AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 Rongxin Luo , Jong-Hak Woo , Jaejin Shin , Daeun Kang , Hyun-Jin Bae , Marios Karouzos

We have performed an absorption-line survey of outflowing gas in 78 starburst-dominated, infrared-luminous galaxies. This is the largest study of superwinds at z < 3. Superwinds are found in almost all infrared-luminous galaxies, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 David S. Rupke , Sylvain Veilleux , D. B. Sanders

We analyze the link between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and mid-infrared flux using dust radiative transfer calculations of starbursts realized in hydrodynamical simulations. Focusing on the effects of galaxy dust, we evaluate diagnostics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-12 Gregory F. Snyder , Christopher C. Hayward , Anna Sajina , Patrik Jonsson , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Philip F. Hopkins , Lin Yan

E+A galaxies are believed to be a short phase connecting major merger ULIRGs with red and dead elliptical galaxies. Their optical spectrum suggests a massive starburst that was quenched abruptly, and their bulge-dominated morphologies with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Dalya Baron , Hagai Netzer , Dieter Lutz , J. Xavier Prochaska , Ric I. Davies

The emission of warm dust dominates the mid-infrared spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Only interferometric observations provide the necessary angular resolution to resolve the nuclear dust and to study its distribution and…

We present calculations of AGN winds at ~parsec scales, along with the associated obscuration. We take into account the pressure of infrared radiation on dust grains and the interaction of X-rays from a central black hole with hot and cold…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Anton Dorodnitsyn , Timothy Kallman

Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) are highly ionized, mildly relativistic winds seen in the X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and are thought to contribute to AGN feedback and galaxy evolution. We investigate UFO signatures by…

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) driven outflows can have a significant impact on the evolution of the host galaxy. In this work, we compare the properties of galaxies that hosts AGNs with and without outflows. Our sample consists of 103 AGNs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-06 Gabriel A. Oio , Y. Sophia Dai , C. G. Bornancini , Zi-Jian Li

Present AGN and starburst models aiming to account for the observed infrared SEDs consider a physical description of the dust and a solution of the radiative transfer problem. MIR spectra obtained at different spatial scales (SST-IRS, ISO…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralf Siebenmorgen

We study outflows driven by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) using high- resolution simulations of idealized z=2 isolated disk galaxies. Episodic accretion events lead to outflows with velocities >1000 km/s and mass outflow rates up to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Jared M. Gabor , Frédéric Bournaud

Recent models for the inner structure of active galactic nuclei (AGN) aim at connecting the outer region of the accretion disk with the broad-line region and dusty torus through a radiatively accelerated, dusty outflow. Such an outflow not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Hermine Landt

The increasing observational evidence of galactic outflows is considered as a sign of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback in action. However, the physical mechanism responsible for driving the observed outflows remains unclear, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian , R. Maiolino

(Abridged) Infrared high-resolution imaging and interferometry have shown that the dust distribution is frequently elongated along the polar direction of an AGN. To explain these findings, we developed a model scenario for the inner ~30 pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Vollmer , M. Schartmann , L. Burtscher , F. Marin , S. Hoenig , R. Davies , R. Goosmann

Large-scale outflows driven by AGNs are an important element of galaxy evolution. Detailed analysis of their properties allows us to probe the activity history of the galactic nucleus and, potentially, other properties of the host galaxy. A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-17 Kastytis Zubovas , Matas Tartėnas

We present observations of 17 luminous (log(L[O III]/L_Sun) > 8.7) local (z < 0.11) type II AGN. Our aim is to investigate the prevalence and nature of AGN driven outflows in these galaxies by combining kinematic and ionization diagnostic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Rebecca McElroy , Scott M. Croom , Michael Pracy , Rob Sharp , I-Ting Ho , Anne M. Medling

Outflows have been shown to be prevalent in galaxies hosting luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and present a physically plausible way to couple the AGN energy output with the interstellar medium of their hosts. Despite their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Marios Karouzos , Jong-Hak Woo , Hyun-Jin Bae

The dust-to-gas ratios in three different samples of luminous, ultraluminous, and hyperluminous infrared galaxies are calculated by modelling their radio to soft X-ray spectral energy distributions using composite models which account for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Contini , T. Contini