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{\it Chandra} spectroscopy of transient stellar-mass black holes in outburst has clearly revealed accretion disk winds in soft, disk--dominated states, in apparent anti-correlation with relativistic jets in low/hard states. These disk winds…

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) often exhibit broad-line regions (BLRs), populated by high-velocity clouds in Keplerian orbits around the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) at subparsec scales. During episodes of intense super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Gustavo E. Romero , Pablo Sotomayor

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 present a simple model for low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (LLAGN) feedback through winds produced by a hot accretion flow. The wind carries considerable energy and deposits it on the host galaxy at kiloparsec scales and beyond,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-22 Ivan Almeida , Rodrigo Nemmen , Rogemar A. Riffel

The hypothesized supermassive black hole in the nucleus of M31 (which we shall hereafter call M31*) has many features in common with Sgr A* at the Galactic Center, yet they differ in several significant and important ways. Though M31* is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Siming Liu , Fulvio Melia

Observations show that winds can be driven from the innermost region (inside a 50 Schwarschild radius) of a thin disk. It is interesting to study the winds launched from the innermost region. A hot corona above the black hole (BH) thin disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu , Qi-Xiu Li

Numerical simulations of black hole hot accretion flows have shown the existence of strong wind. Those works focus only on the region close to black hole thus it is unknown whether or where the wind production stops at large radii. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 De-Fu Bu , Feng Yuan , Zhao-Ming Gan , Xiao-Hong Yang

We have analysed the soft X-ray emission from the nuclear source of the nearby spiral galaxy M81, using the available data collected with ROSAT, ASCA, BeppoSAX and Chandra. The source flux is highly variable, showing (sometimes dramatic: a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. La Parola , G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis , F. Nicastro , D. W. Kim , G. Peres

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

Galactic outflows driven by rapidly-accreting quasars at high redshift are widely expected to play a key role in the short- and long-term future evolution of their host galaxies. Using new and archival ALMA data, we observed the OH 119um…

We investigate large-scale galactic winds driven by momentum deposition. Momentum injection is provided by (1) radiation pressure produced by the continuum absorption and scattering of UV photons on dust grains and (2) supernovae. UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Norman Murray , Eliot Quataert , Todd A. Thompson

Submillimetre and millimetre observations are important in probing the properties of the molecular gas and dust around obscured active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their feedback. With very high-resolution (0."02x0."03 (2x3 pc)) ALMA 345 GHz…

Galactic winds are a crucial player in galaxy formation and evolution, but observations of them have proven extraordinarily difficult to interpret, leaving large uncertainties even in basic quantities such as mass outflow rates. Part of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Yuxuan Yuan , Mark R. Krumholz , Crystal L. Martin

We find, from high-resolution hydro simulations, that winds from AGN effectively heat the inner parts (~100 pc) of elliptical galaxies, reducing infall to the central SMBH; and radiative (photoionization and X-ray) heating reduces cooling…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Ciotti , J. P. Ostriker , D. Proga

The tight empirical $M-\sigma$ relation between the mass of a SMBH) and the velocity dispersion of the host galaxy bulge is often interpreted as the result of self-regulation by AGN feedback. This picture is motivated by analytical and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 Matas Tartėnas , Kastytis Zubovas , Eimantas Skuodas

Most black holes (BHs) formed in collapsing stars have low spin, though some are expected to acquire a magnetic accretion disk during the collapse. While such BH disks can launch magnetically driven winds, their physics and observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Justin Bopp , Ore Gottlieb

A pair of giant gamma-ray bubbles have been revealed by the {\it Fermi} LAT. In this paper we investigate their formation mechanism. Observations have indicated that the activity of the supermassive black hole located at the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Guobin Mou , Feng Yuan , Defu Bu , Mouyuan Sun , Meng Su

We present a new implementation for active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback through small-scale, ultra-fast winds in the moving-mesh hydrodynamic code AREPO. The wind is injected by prescribing mass, momentum and energy fluxes across a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Tiago Costa , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

We discuss massive outflows in galaxy bulges, particularly ones driven by accretion episodes where the central supermassive black hole reaches the Eddington limit. We show that the quasar radiation field Compton--cools the wind shock until…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 A. R. King , K. Zubovas , C. Power

Gas blown away from galactic disks by supernova (SN) feedback plays a key role in galaxy evolution. We investigate outflows utilizing the solar neighborhood model of our high-resolution, local galactic disk simulation suite, TIGRESS. In our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker