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Winds from the accretion disk in tidal disruption events (TDEs) play a key role in determining the radiation of TDEs. The winds from the super-Eddington accretion phase in TDEs have recently been studied. However, properties of the winds…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 De-Fu Bu , Xiao-Hong Yang , Liang Chen , Chenwei Yang , Guobin Mou

Evidently, low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGNs) are comprised of an inner advective disk and an outer geometrically thin disk. Wind is inevitable in LLAGNs, mainly interpreted in an indirect way, also the evidence is growing for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-04 Nagendra Kumar

We present a study of X-ray ionization of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion-disk winds in an effort to constrain the physics underlying the highly-ionized ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) inferred by X-ray absorbers often detected in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Keigo Fukumura , Francesco Tombesi , Demosthenes Kazanas , Chris Shrader , Ehud Behar , Ioannis Contopoulos

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

X-ray obscuration of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is considered in the context of ionized winds of stratified structure launched from accretion disks. We argue that a Compton-thick layer of a large-scale disk wind can obscure continuum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-18 Keigo Fukumura , Missagh Mehdipour , Ehud Behar , Chris Shrader , Mauro Dadina , Demosthenes Kazanas , Stefano Marchesi , Francesco Tombesi

The ultraviolet (UV) bright accretion disc in active galactic nuclei (AGN) should give rise to line driving, producing a powerful wind which may play an important role in AGN feedback as well as in producing structures like the broad line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-05 Arnau Quera-Bofarull , Chris Done , Cedric G. Lacey , Mariko Nomura , Ken Ohsuga

We study outflows driven by Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) using high- resolution simulations of idealized z=2 isolated disk galaxies. Episodic accretion events lead to outflows with velocities >1000 km/s and mass outflow rates up to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Jared M. Gabor , Frédéric Bournaud

Estimating the mass of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) usually relies on the assumption that the broad line region (BLR) is virialized. However, this assumption seems invalid in BLR models that consists…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Amit Kashi , Daniel Proga , Kentaro Nagamine , Jenny Greene , Aaron J. Barth

We analyze the dynamics of 2D stationary line-driven winds from accretion disks in cataclysmic variables (CVs), by generalizing the Castor, Abbott and Klein theory. In paper 1, we have solved the wind Euler equation, derived its two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Achim Feldmeier , Isaac Shlosman , Peter Vitello

We present the results of hydrodynamical simulations of the disk photosphere irradiated by strong X-rays produced in the inner most part of the disk. As expected, the irradiation heats the photosphere and drives a thermal wind. To apply our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Luketic , D. Proga , T. R. Kallman , J. C. Raymond , J. M. Miller

We study the 2-D, time-dependent hydrodynamics of radiation-driven winds from accretion disks in which the radiation force is mediated by spectral lines. If the dominant contribution to the total radiation field comes from the disk, then we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Daniel Proga , James M. Stone , Janet E. Drew

Strong evidence is emerging that winds can be driven from the central regions of accretion disks in both active galactic nuclei (AGN) and Galactic black hole binaries (GBHBs). Direct evidence for highly-ionized, Compton-thin inner-disk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Christopher S. Reynolds

We present the analysis of seven \emph{Chandra} High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer and six simultaneous \emph{RXTE} Proportional Counter Array observations of the persistent neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary GX 13+1 on its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-11 Jessamyn L. Allen , Norbert S. Schulz , Jeroen Homan , Joseph Neilsen , Michael A. Nowak , Deepto Chakrabarty

We perform multi-dimensional radiative transfer simulations to compute spectra for a hydrodynamical simulation of a line-driven accretion disk wind from an active galactic nucleus. The synthetic spectra confirm expectations from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 S. A. Sim , D. Proga , L. Miller , K. S. Long , T. J. Turner

X-ray heating of the photosphere of an accretion disk is a possible mechanism to produce strong, broad UV emission lines in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). However, detailed photoionization calculations show that this mechanism fails to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga , T. R. Kallman

We report on a 120 ks Chandra/HETG spectrum of the black hole GRS 1915+105. The observation was made during an extended and bright soft state in June, 2015. An extremely rich disk wind absorption spectrum is detected, similar to that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 J. M. Miller , J. Raymond , A. C. Fabian , E. Gallo , J. Kaastra , T. Kallman , A. L. King , D. Proga , C. S. Reynolds , A. Zoghbi

We study the two-dimensional, time-dependent MHD of radiation-driven winds from luminous accretion disks initially threaded by a purely axial magnetic field. The radiation force is mediated primarily by spectral lines. We use ideal MHD to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Proga

Infrared interferometry of local AGN has revealed a warm (~300K-400K) polar dust structure that cannot be trivially explained by the putative dust torus of the unified model. This led to the development of the disk+wind scenario which…

Powerful winds driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) are often invoked to play a fundamental role in the evolution of both supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host galaxies, quenching star formation and explaining the tight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Francesco Tombesi

(Abridged) Infrared high-resolution imaging and interferometry have shown that the dust distribution is frequently elongated along the polar direction of an AGN. To explain these findings, we developed a model scenario for the inner ~30 pc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Vollmer , M. Schartmann , L. Burtscher , F. Marin , S. Hoenig , R. Davies , R. Goosmann