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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 produce radiation hydrodynamics models of an AGN 'torus' plus outflow on 1-100 pc scales. This large scale permits direct comparison with observations, provides justification for configurations used in radiation transfer models, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-08 David Williamson , Sebastian Hönig , Marta Venanzi

We explore the gas dynamics near the dust sublimation radius of active galactic nucleus (AGN). For the purpose, we perform axisymmetric radiation hydrodynamic simulations of a dusty gas disk of radius $\approx 1\,\mathrm{pc}$ around a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Daisuke Namekata , Masayuki Umemura

We have calculated a series of models of outflows from the obscuring torus in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Our modeling assumes that the inner face of a rotationally supported torus is illuminated and heated by the intense X-rays from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Dorodnitsyn , T. Kallman , D. Proga

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

We calculate a series of synthetic X-ray spectra from outflows originating from the obscuring torus in active galactic nuclei (AGN). Such modeling includes 2.5D hydrodynamical simulations of an X-ray excited torus wind, including the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 A. Dorodnitsyn , T. Kallman

Winds launched at the scale of the accretion disc or dusty torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are thought to drive energy-conserving outflows that shape galaxy evolution. The key signature of such outflows, the presence of a hot ($T…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Ivan Almeida , Tiago Costa , Chris M. Harrison , Samuel R. Ward

We present radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of radiatively-driven gas shells launched by bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) in isolated dark matter haloes. Our goals are (1) to investigate the ability of AGN radiation pressure on dust to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-25 Tiago Costa , Joakim Rosdahl , Debora Sijacki , Martin Haehnelt

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

Many efforts have been made to model the mass distribution and dynamical evolution of the circumnuclear gas in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). However, chemical evolution is not included in detail in three-dimensional (3-D) hydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Juan-Pablo Perez-Beaupuits , Keiichi Wada , Marco Spaans

We construct a radiation-hydrodynamics model for the obscuring toroidal structure in active galactic nuclei. In this model the obscuration is produced at parsec scale by a dense, dusty wind which is supported by infrared radiation pressure…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Dorodnitsyn , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan , T. Kallman

An integral part of the Unified Model for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) is an axisymmetric obscuring medium, which is commonly depicted as a torus of gas and dust surrounding the central engine. However, a robust, dynamical model of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. K. Keating , J. E. Everett , S. C. Gallagher , R. P. Deo

The feedback by active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is significant for the formation and evolution of galaxies. It has been realized that the radiative pressure feedback could be an efficient mechanism due to the existence of dust. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Yuan Liu , Shuang Nan Zhang

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

We explore a detailed model in which the active galactic nucleus (AGN) obscuration results from the extinction of AGN radiation in a global flow driven by the pressure of infrared radiation on dust grains. We assume that external…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-15 A. Dorodnitsyn , T. Kallman , G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The quasar mode of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the high-redshift Universe is routinely observed in gas-rich galaxies together with large-scale AGN-driven winds. It is crucial to understand how photons emitted by the central AGN source…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Rebekka Bieri , Yohan Dubois , Joakim Rosdahl , Alexander Y. Wagner , Joseph Silk , Gary A. Mamon

This letter presents a revised radiative transfer model for the infrared (IR) emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN). While current models assume that the IR is emitted from a dusty torus in the equatorial plane of the AGN, spatially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Sebastian F. Hönig , Makoto Kishimoto

Disc winds are a common feature in accreting astrophysical systems on all scales. In active galactic nuclei (AGN) and accreting white dwarfs (AWDs), specifically, radiation pressure mediated by spectral lines is a promising mechanism for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-12 Nick Higginbottom , Nicolas Scepi , Christian Knigge , Knox S. Long , James H. Matthews , Stuart A. Sim

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

Galaxy-scale outflows, which are thought to provide the link connecting the central black hole to its host galaxy, are now starting to be observed. However, the physical origin of the mechanism driving the observed outflows, whether due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian
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