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We present numerical simulations of properties of a parsec-scale torus exposed to illumination by the central black hole in an active galaxy (AGN). Our physical model allows to investigate the balance between the formation of winds and…

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Disc winds play a crucial role in many accreting astrophysical systems across all scales. In accreting white dwarfs (AWDs) and active galactic nuclei (AGN), radiation pressure on spectral lines is a promising wind-driving mechanism.…

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We study dusty winds driven by radiation pressure in the atmosphere of a rapidly star-forming environment. We apply the variable Eddington tensor algorithm to re-examine the two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic problem of a column of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-19 Dong Zhang , Shane W. Davis

Considerable uncertainties remain about the nature of warm, AGN-driven outflows and their impact on the evolution of galaxies. This is because the outflows are often unresolved in ground-based observations. As part of a project to study the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-09 C. Tadhunter , L. Holden , C. Ramos Almeida , D. Batcheldor

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

Galactic outflows, driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN), play a crucial role in galaxy formation and in the self-regulated growth of supermassive black holes (BHs). AGN feedback couples to and affects gas, rather than stars, and in many,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-10 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Gohar Dashyan

Cool outflows are now commonly observed in galaxies, but their physical origin and driving mechanism remain unclear. Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback can potentially accelerate cool galactic outflows via cosmic rays (CR) and radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

Flows driven by photons have been studied for almost a century, and a quantitative description of the radiative forces on atoms and ions is important for understanding a wide variety of systems with outflows and accretion disks, such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-19 Aylecia S. Lattimer , Steven R. Cranmer

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

Radiation-driven outflows play a crucial role in extracting mass and angular momentum from binary systems undergoing rapid mass transfer at super-Eddington rates. To study the mass transfer process from a massive donor star to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-14 Daisuke Toyouchi , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohei Inayoshi , Rolf Kuiper

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

The torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a complex dynamical structure of gas and dust. It is thought to be composed of an equatorial dusty disk and a polar dusty wind launched by radiation pressure. However, this picture is based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Farin Drewes , James H. Leftley , Sebastian F. Hönig , Konrad W. Tristram , Makoto Kishimoto

(abridged) Accretion onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at close to the Eddington rate can influence the host galaxy via powerful winds. Theoretical models of such winds can explain observational correlations between SMBHs and their host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 K. Zubovas , M. Tartėnas , M. A. Bourne

According to theory, the torus of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is sustained from a wind coming off the accretion disk, and for low efficient AGN, it has been proposed that such structure disappears. However, the exact conditions for its…

The advent of high-angular resolution IR and sub-mm interferometry allows for spatially-resolved observations of the parsec-scale environment of active galactic nuclei (AGN), commonly referred to as the "torus." While molecular lines show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Sebastian F. Hönig

A hot corona is suggested to be above the standard thin disk. The anisotropy of hard X-ray emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei implies that the corona is not static and probably moves outwards like winds. We perform…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu , Qi-Xiu Li

The presence of absorbing gas around the central engine of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a common feature of these objects. Recent work has looked at the effect of the dust component of the gas, and how it enhances radiation pressure such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. I. Raimundo , A. C. Fabian , F. E. Bauer , D. M. Alexander , W. N. Brandt , B. Luo , R. V. Vasudevan , Y. Q. Xue

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 structures and dynamics of molecular, atomic, and ionized gases are studied around a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN) with a small ($2\times 10^6 M_\odot$) black hole using 3D radiation hydrodynamic simulations. We studied,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-21 Keiichi Wada , Marc Schartmann , Rowin Meijerink

The obscuring circumnuclear torus of dusty molecular gas is one of the major components of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The torus can be studied by analyzing the time response of its infrared (IR) dust emission to variations in the AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-22 Triana Almeyda , Andrew Robinson , Michael Richmond , Billy Vazquez , Robert Nikutta