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Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs) are an established feature in X-ray spectra of AGNs. According to the standard picture, they are launched at accretion disc scales with relativistic velocities, up to 0.3-0.4 c. Their high kinetic power is enough…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 A. Luminari , F. Nicastro , M. Elvis , E. Piconcelli , F. Tombesi , L. Zappacosta , F. Fiore

Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) with mildly relativistic velocities are measured using the X-ray spectra of radio-quiet and -loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In general, UFOs are believed to be generated from the accretion disk around a black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Bei-Chuan Wang , Xiao-Hong Yang , De-Fu Bu , Shu-Su Huang

Using two-dimensional radiation hydrodynamic simulations, we investigate origin of the ultra fast outflows (UFOs) that are often observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We found that the radiation force due to the spectral lines…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Mariko Nomura , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Keiichi Wada , Tessei Yoshida

Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) with mildly relativistic velocities are frequently observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The line-force-driving mechanism is often taken as a potential mechanism for driving UFOs. Due to the line-force-driven…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Luobin Tang , Xiaohong Yang , Defu Bu

Physics of the Poynting-Robertson (P-R) effect is discussed and compared with the statements published in the past thirty years. Relativistically covariant formulation reveals the essence of the P-R effect and points out to nonphysical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 J. Klacka , J. Petrzala , P. Pastor , L. Komar

In radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) were detected at the inclination angle of $\sim10^{\rm o}$--$70^{\rm o}$ away from jets. Except for the inclination angle of UFOs, the UFOs in radio-loud AGNs have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Xiao-Hong Yang

Outflows are observed in a variety of astrophysical sources. Remarkably, ultra-fast ($v\geq 0.1c$), outflows in the UV and X-ray bands are often seen in AGNs. Depending on their energy and mass outflow rate, respectively $\dot{E}_{out},…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Luminari , F. Tombesi , E. Piconcelli , F. Nicastro , K. Fukumura , D. Kazanas , F. Fiore , L. Zappacosta

In my doctoral thesis, I have focussed my attention on radiation processes in high-energy astrophysics connected with the accretion flow physics around compact objects. Generally, a radiation field beside to exert an outward radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Vittorio De Falco

We analyze the combined effect of Poynting-Robertson and solar wind drag on space debris. We derive a model within Cartesian, Gaussian and Hamiltonian frameworks. We focus on the geosynchronous resonance, although the results can be easily…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-01 Christoph Lhotka , Alessandra Celletti , Catalin Gales

Among a number of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that drive ionized outflows in X-rays, a low-redshift (z = 0.184) quasar, PDS 456, is long known to exhibit one of the exemplary ultra-fast outflows (UFOs). However, the physical process of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Keigo Fukumura , Demosthenes Kazanas , Chris Shrader , Ehud Behar , Francesco Tombesi , Ioannis Contopoulos

Powerful winds at accretion-disk scales have been observed in the past 20 years in many AGN. These are the so-called ultrafast outflows (UFOs). Outflows are intimately related to mass accretion through the conservation of angular momentum,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-18 Fabrizio Fiore , Massimo Gaspari , Alfredo Luminari , Paolo Tozzi , Lucilla De Arcangelis

The detection of blue-shifted absorption lines likely associated with ionized Iron K-shell transitions in the X-ray spectra of many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) suggests the presence of a highly ionized gas outflowing with mildly…

Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) play a key role in the AGN feedback mechanism. It is therefore important to fully characterize their location and energetics. We study the UFO in the latest XMM-Newton archival observation of the NLSy1 galaxy PG…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 M. Laurenti , A. Luminari , F. Tombesi , F. Vagnetti , R. Middei , E. Piconcelli

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback is the process by which supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies may moderate the growth of their hosts. Gas outflows from supermassive black holes release huge quantities of energy into the…

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…

Massive black holes at the centers of galaxies can launch powerful wide-angle winds that, if sustained over time, can unbind the gas from the stellar bulges of galaxies. These winds may be responsible for the observed scaling relation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 LAT Collaboration

Outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to explain the co-evolution of AGN and their host galaxies, and the scaling relations between the central black hole mass and the bulge velocity dispersion. Nuclear winds are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-21 A. Luminari , E. Piconcelli , F. Tombesi , L. Zappacosta , F. Fiore , L. Piro , F. Vagnetti

Powerful supermassive black hole (SMBH) winds in the form of ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) are detected in the X-ray spectra of several active galactic nuclei (AGN) seemingly independently of their radio classification between radio quiet (RQ)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 S. Mestici , F. Tombesi , M. Gaspari , E. Piconcelli , F. Panessa

Ultrafast outflows (UFOs) are the most extreme winds launched by active galactic nuclei (AGN) due to their mildly-relativistic speeds (~0.1-0.3c) and are thought to significantly contribute to galactic evolution via AGN feedback. Their…

Relativistically blueshifted absorption features of highly ionised ions, the so-called ultra-fast outflows (UFOs), have been detected in the X-ray spectra of a number of accreting supermassive black holes. If these features truly originate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 P. Kosec , A. Zoghbi , D. J. Walton , C. Pinto , A. C. Fabian , M. L. Parker , C. S. Reynolds
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