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Large-scale Dynamics of Winds Driven by Line Force from a Thin Accretion Disk

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2022-05-04 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Winds play a significant role in active galactic nuclei feedback process. Previous simulations studying winds only focus on a small dynamical range. Therefore, it is unknown how far the winds can go and what the properties of the winds will be if they can move to large radii. We perform simulations to study the large scale dynamics of winds driven by line force. We find that the properties of the winds depend on both black hole mass (MBHM_{BH}) and accretion disk luminosity. When the accretion disk luminosity is 0.6Ledd0.6L_{edd} (LeddL_{edd} being Eddington luminosity), independent of MBHM_{BH}, the winds have kinetic energy flux exceeding 1%Ledd1\% L_{edd} and can escape from the black hole potential. For the case with the accretion disk luminosity equaling 0.3LeddL_{edd}, the strength of the winds decreases with the decrease of MBHM_{BH}. If MBHM_{BH} decreases from 10910^9 to 10610^6 solar mass (MM_\odot), the winds kinetic energy flux decreases from 0.01Ledd\sim 0.01 L_{edd} to 106Ledd \sim 10^{-6} L_{edd}. In case of MBH107MM_{BH}\geq 10^7 M_\odot, winds can escape from black hole potential. In the case of MBH=106MM_{BH}=10^6 M_\odot, the winds can not escape. We find that for the ultra-fast winds observed in hard X-ray bands (\citealt{Gofford et al. 2015}), the observed dependence of the mass flux and the kinetic energy flux on accretion disk luminosity can be well produced by line force driven winds model. We also find that the properties of the ultra-fast winds observed in soft X-ray bands can be explained by the line force driven winds model.

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@article{arxiv.2204.07296,
  title  = {Large-scale Dynamics of Winds Driven by Line Force from a Thin Accretion Disk},
  author = {Yi Zhu and De-Fu Bu and Xiao-Hong Yang and Feng Yuan and Wen-Bin Lin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07296},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

14 pages, 11 figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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