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Wind is believed to be widespread in various black hole accretion flows. However, unlike the wind from thin disks, which have substantial observational evidence, the wind from hot accretion flows is difficult to observe due to the extremely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-30 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan

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

Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) have been detected in the high-quality X-ray spectra of a number of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with fairly high accretion rates and are thought to significantly contribute to the AGN feedback. After a decade of…

I present the elements of accretion-disc physics applied to active galactic nuclei. The accretion driving mechanisms are discussed, then models of geometrically-thin discs, both stationary and time-dependent, are addressed. Disc's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-23 Jean-Pierre Lasota

Stars with outflows interacting with ambient gas experience accelerations arising from the gravitational feedback induced by the interaction structure. In this work, three-dimensional (3D) local shearing box simulations are performed to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Muxin Liu , Lile Wang , Peng Peng

Various types of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are briefly discussed, with an emphasis on the theory of recent X-ray and $\gamma$-ray observations of the subclass, Seyfert 1 galaxies. The large radiation power from AGN is thought to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roland Svensson

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

Powerful outflows from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can significantly impact the gas reservoirs of their host galaxies. However, it is still unclear how these outflows can propagate from the very central regions of galaxies to their…

Despite early theoretical expectations that large-scale, massive outflows would be triggered by accretion onto black holes and neutron stars, their presence was not firmly established until the 2000s. Since then, these accretion disc winds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Teo Muñoz-Darias , María Díaz Trigo , Chris Done , Gabriele Ponti , Ryota Tomaru

We explore the poloidal structure of two-dimensional (2D) MHD winds in relation to their potential association with the X-ray warm absorbers (WAs) and the highly-ionized ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) in AGN, in a single unifying approach. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Keigo Fukumura , Francesco Tombesi , Demosthenes Kazanas , Chris Shrader , Ehud Behar , Ioannis Contopoulos

We study AGN line driven disc winds using time-dependent radiation hydrodynamics. The key criterion for determining wind launching is the coupling strength of the UV radiation field via the spectral lines of the gas. The strength of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-31 Sergei Dyda , Shane W. Davis , Daniel Proga

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

Recent discoveries have confirmed the existence of a large population of X-ray sources fuelled by accretion from the stellar wind of an OB supergiant. Such systems are powerful laboratories to study many aspects of astrophysics. Over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-25 Ignacio Negueruela

We review recent observational and theoretical results on the relationship between circumstellar accretion disks and jets in young stellar objects. We then present a theoretical framework that interprets jets as accretion-powered,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arieh Konigl , Ralph E. Pudritz

We predict the observational signatures of galaxy scale outflows powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Most of the emission is produced by the forward shock driven into the ambient interstellar medium (ISM) rather than by the reverse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jesse Nims , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

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

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) is widely acknowledged to regulate the growth of massive galaxies, though its driving mechanisms are debated. Prevailing theories suggest that AGN-driven outflows are driven either by radiation…

We explore the effect of momentum-driven winds representing radiation pressure driven outflows from accretion onto supermassive black holes in a set of numerical hydrodynamical simulations. We explore two matched sets of cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Ryan Brennan , Ena Choi , Rachel S. Somerville , Michaela Hirschmann , Thorsten Naab , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

abridged: We use XSCORT, together with the hydrodynamic accretion disc wind simulation from Proga & Kallman (2004), to calculate the impact that the accretion disk wind has on the X-ray spectrum from a 1E8 solar mass black hole Active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 N. J. Schurch , C. Done , D. Proga

Wind and jet are important medium of AGN feedback thus it is crucial to obtain their properties for the feedback study. In this paper we investigate the properties of wind and jet launched from a magnetized super-Eddington accretion flow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Hai Yang , Feng Yuan , Tom Kwan , Lixin Dai