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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

Mass transfer from an evolved donor star to its binary companion is a standard feature of stellar evolution in binaries. In wide binaries, the companion star captures some of the mass ejected in a wind by the primary star. The captured…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hagai B. Perets , Scott J. Kenyon

We investigate accretion disk winds commonly observed in galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binaries (XRB), which manifest as blueshifted absorption features in X-ray spectra. We model these winds as ideal magnetohydrodynamic outflows of hot…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-30 Atsushi Tanimoto , Keigo Fukumura , Shoji Ogawa , Hirokazu Odaka , Francesco Tombesi , Marco Laurenti , Pierpaolo Condo , Alfredo Luminari

What does the temporal evolution of disc winds tell us about accreting systems and the accretion process? Studies of accretion-disc outflows across all mass scales, including accreting white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, and active galactic…

We present a study of the acceleration phase of line-driven winds in AGNs, in order to examine the physical conditions for the existence of such winds for a wide variety of initial conditions. We built a simple and fast non-hydrodynamic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Risaliti , M. Elvis

Recurring outbursts associated with matter flowing onto compact stellar remnants (black-holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs) in close binary systems, provide strong test beds for constraining the poorly understood accretion process. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 B. E. Tetarenko , J. -P. Lasota , C. O. Heinke , G. Dubus , G. R. Sivakoff

Powerful ionized accretion disk winds are often observed during episodic outbursts in Galactic black hole transients. Among those X-ray absorbers, \fexxvi\ doublet structure (Ly$\alpha_1$+Ly$\alpha_2$ with $\sim 20$eV apart) has a unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 Keigo Fukumura , Shoji Ogawa , Atsushi Tanimoto , Francesco Tombesi , Alfredo Luminari , Maxime Parra , Megumi Shidatsu , Liyi Gu , Ehud Behar

We investigate the relation between the two modes of outflow (wind and jet) in radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN). For this study we have carried out a systematic and homogeneous analysis of XMM-Newton spectra of a sample of 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Missagh Mehdipour , Elisa Costantini

We report on the 2019 XMM-Newton+NuSTAR monitoring campaign of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2992, observed at one of its highest flux levels in the X-rays. The time-averaged spectra of the two XMM-Newton orbits show Ultra Fast Outflows (UFOs)…

Galactic-scale winds driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to suppress star formation in galaxy evolution models, but the mechanisms driving these outflows are hotly debated. Two key AGN feedback models are (1) radiation…

Large scale outflows of different gas phases are ubiquitous in the host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Despite their many differences, they share a common property - they all contain dust. The dust is carried with the outflow,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Dalya Baron , Hagai Netzer

Observation of blue-shifted X-ray absorption lines indicates the presence of wind from the accretion disk in X-ray binaries. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) driving is one of the possible wind launching mechanisms. Recent theoretical development…

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

In the last decade, X-ray spectroscopy has enabled a wealth of discoveries of photoionised absorbers in X-ray binaries. Studies of such accretion disc atmospheres and winds are of fundamental importance to understand accretion processes and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 M. Díaz Trigo , L. Boirin

Quantifying the variability, measured as the root mean square (rms), of accreting systems as a function of energy is a powerful tool for constraining the physical properties of these objects. Here, we present the first application of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-09 F. M. Vincentelli , T. Muñoz Darias

An empirical forward-modeling framework is developed to interpret the multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and provide insights into the overlap and incompleteness of samples selected at different parts of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Antonis Georgakakis , Angel Ruiz , Stephanie M. LaMassa

X-ray spectroscopy offers an opportunity to study the complex mixture of emitting and absorbing components in the circumnuclear regions of active galactic nuclei, and to learn about the accretion process that fuels AGN and the feedback of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Turner , L. Miller

The broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is investigated for a well-selected sample composed of $23$ Seyfert 1 galaxies observed simultaneously in the optical/UV and X-ray bands with the Neil Gehrels…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Huaqing Cheng , Weimin Yuan , He-Yang Liu , A. A. Breeveld , Chichuan Jin , Bifang Liu

Supermassive black holes in galaxies spend majority of their lifetime in the low-luminosity regime, powered by hot accretion flow. Strong winds launched from the hot accretion flow have the potential to play an important role in active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Fangzheng Shi , Feng Yuan , Zhiyuan Li , Zhao Su , Suoqing Ji

Several properties of the standard alpha-disc model for active galactic nuclei (AGN) are not entirely consistent with AGN observations. As well as such discrepencies, observations show evidence for the existence of high mass outflow winds…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Oren Slone , Hagai Netzer