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Large-scale, broad outflows are common in active galaxies. In systems where star formation coexists with an AGN, it is unclear yet the role that both play on driving the outflows. In this work we present three-dimensional radiative-cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-21 E. de Gouveia Dal Pino , W. Clavijo-Bohórquez , C. Melioli

Winds outflowing from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) may carry significant amount of mass and energy out to their host galaxies. In this paper we report the detection of a sub-relativistic outflow observed in the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy…

We present hydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) within the circumnuclear disk (CND) of a typical AGN-dominated galaxy influenced by mechanical feedback from an active galactic nucleus(AGN). The simulations are coupled…

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are known to drive ionized gas into their host galaxies, which may affect the evolution of both the central supermassive black holes and their hosts. In the case of NGC 3516, a nearby Seyfert 1 galaxy, these AGN…

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

The gravitationally lensed quasar APM 08279+5255 has the fastest claimed wind from any AGN, with velocities of 0.6-0.7c, requiring magnetic acceleration as special relativisitic effects limit all radiatively driven winds to v<0.3-0.5c.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Kouichi Hagino , Chris Done , Hirokazu Odaka , Shin Watanabe , Tadayuki Takahashi

Radiation, winds and jets from the active nucleus of a massive galaxy can interact with its interstellar medium leading to ejection or heating of the gas. This can terminate star formation in the galaxy and stifle accretion onto the black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. C. Fabian

In Tombesi et al. (2015), we reported the first direct evidence for a quasar accretion disk wind driving a massive molecular outflow. The target was F11119+3257, an ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) with unambiguous type-1 quasar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-05 S. Veilleux , A. Bolatto , F. Tombesi , M. Melendez , E. Sturm , E. Gonzalez-Alfonso , J. Fischer , D. S. N. Rupke

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, emitting radiation from low-energy radio waves to high energy $\gamma$-rays. They are well known to exhibit flux variations at nearly all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 M. Reshma , C. S. Stalin , Amit Kumar Mandal , S. B. Gudennavar , Senorita Benedict , Prajwel Joseph

We apply novel developments in photoionization modeling and multi-frequency radiation hydrodynamics to the study of line driven AGN disc winds. We use a flux-averaged force multiplier approach to compute the radiation force due to lines for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Sergei Dyda , Randall C. Dannen , Shane W. Davis , Daniel Proga , Timothy R. Kallman

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…

Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Weixiao Wang , De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

We study the growth of black holes (BHs) in galaxies using three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamic simulations with new implementations of the momentum mechanical feedback, and restriction of accreted elements to those that are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Ena Choi , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson

For most of their lifetime, super-massive black holes (SMBHs) commonly found in galactic nuclei obtain mass from the ambient at a rate well below the Eddington limit, which is mediated by a radiatively inefficient, hot accretion flow. Both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Fangzheng Shi , Zhiyuan Li , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

We use HDGAS hydrodynamic simulations to study the impact of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback on the conversion of atomic-gas to molecular-gas within the circumnuclear-disc (CND) of a typical AGN-dominated galaxy. The comparison of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Mojtaba Raouf , Serena Viti , Reihaneh Karimi , Alexander J. Richings

We summarize recent developments in modeling of mass outflows from accretion disks in AGN. We illustrate how the hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical wind structures revealed in numerical simulations relate to observations. Important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Proga

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is widely viewed as the most promising solution to the long-standing cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters, yet previous models prescribe jet properties inconsistent with accretion physics. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Aoyun He , Feng Yuan , Suoqing Ji , Minhang Guo , Yuan Li , Haiguang Xu , Ming Sun , Haojie Xia , Yuanyuan Zhao

We present the numerical simulations of winds from evolved giant stars using a fully non-linear, time dependent 2.5-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code. This study extends our previous fully non-linear MHD wind simulations to include…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Vladimir Airapetian , Kenneth G. Carpenter , Leon Ofman

We present UV/optical spectropolarimetric modelling of the phenomenologically-based structure for quasars proposed by Elvis (2000). In this first paper of a series, we explore the continuum polarisation emerging from radiatively accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-07 F. Marin , R. W. Goosmann

Radiation pressure on spectral lines is a promising mechanism for powering disc winds from accreting white dwarfs (AWDs) and active galactic nuclei (AGN). However, in radiation-hydrodynamic simulations, overionization reduces line opacity…