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UltraFast Outflows (UFOs), seen as X-ray blueshifted absorption lines in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), are considered to be a key mechanism for AGN feedback. In this scenario, UFO kinetic energy is transferred into the cold and extended…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-28 Misaki Mizumoto , Takuma Izumi , Kotaro Kohno

We present a comparison of the parameters of accretion disc outflows and the jet of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111 on sub-pc scales. We make use of published X-ray observations of ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) and new 43GHz VLBA images to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Tombesi , R. M. Sambruna , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , C. S. Reynolds , A. Markowitz

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

Recent X-ray observations show absorbing winds with velocities up to mildly-relativistic values of the order of ~0.1c in a limited sample of 6 broad-line radio galaxies. They are observed as blue-shifted Fe XXV-XXVI K-shell absorption…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 F. Tombesi , F. Tazaki , R. F. Mushotzky , Y. Ueda , M. Cappi , J. Gofford , J. N. Reeves , M. Guainazzi

We use MUSE adaptive optics (AO) data in Narrow Field Mode to study the properties of the ionised gas in MR 2251-178 and PG 1126-041, two nearby (z~0.06) bright quasars hosting sub-pc scale Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) detected in the X-ray…

(abridged) The accretion disk in AGN is expected to produce strong outflows, in particular a UV-line driven wind. Despite providing a good fit to the data, current spectral models of the X-ray spectrum of AGN observed through an accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Schurch , C. Done

In order to reveal the origin of the ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) that are frequently observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we perform two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamics simulations of the line-driven disk winds, which are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-25 Mariko Nomura , Ken Ohsuga

We perform axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to investigate the acceleration and collimation of jets and outflows from disks around compact objects. The fiducial disk surface (respectively a slow disk wind) is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 O. Porth , C. Fendt

X-ray absorption line spectroscopy has recently shown evidence for previously unknown Ultra-fast Outflows (UFOs) in radio-quiet AGNs. In the previous paper of this series we defined UFOs as those absorbers with an outflow velocity higher…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Tombesi , M. Cappi , J. N. Reeves , G. G. C. Palumbo , V. Braito , M. Dadina

We describe the physical mechanisms of launching and acceleration of wind from an active galactic nucleus (AGN) accretion disk. We focus on the radiation line force driven and magnetic driven wind models, which operate on the accretion disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-04 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan

(Abridged) We present two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of slowly rotating gas that is under the influence of the gravity of a super massive black hole and is irradiated by a thin UV accretion disc and a spherical X-ray corona. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Ryuichi Kurosawa , Daniel Proga

There is a maximum for the gravity of a black hole in the vertical direction in the accretion disc. Outflows may probably be driven from the disc if the radiation flux of the disc is greater than a critical value corresponding to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Xinwu Cao , Wei-Min Gu

We perform time-dependent, 2DHD numerical simulations to study the dynamics of a slowly rotating accretion flow from sub-pc to pc scales under the irradiation from the central AGN. Compared to previous work, we improve the calculation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Chao Liu , Feng Yuan , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Zhaoming Gan , Xiaohong Yang

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

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

Observational evidence and many numerical simulations show the existence of wind (i.e., uncollimated outflow) in accretion systems of the elliptical galaxy center. One of the primary aims of this study is to investigate the solutions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-23 Razieh Ranjbar , Shahram Abbassi

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) can launch and sustain powerful winds featuring mildly relativistic velocity and wide opening angle. Such winds, known as ultra-fast outflows (UFOs), can develop a bubble structure characterized by a forward…

(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

IRAS 13224-3809 is one of the most intensively studied narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, with a rich literature reporting diverse and sometimes contrasting interpretations of its complex X-ray spectra and variability. Notably, a fast and…

It is typically assumed that radiation pressure driven winds are accelerated to an asymptotic velocity of V ~ v_esc, where v_esc is the escape velocity from the central source. We note that this is not the case for dusty shells and clouds.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Todd A. Thompson , Andrew C. Fabian , Eliot Quataert , Norman Murray