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تسجيل مستخدم جديدThe origin of ultra-fast outflows in AGN: Monte-Carlo simulations of the wind in PDS 456
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Ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) are seen in many AGN, giving a possible mode for AGN feedback onto the host galaxy. However, the mechanism(s) for the launch and acceleration of these outflows are currently unknown, with UV line driving apparently strongly disfavoured as the material along the line of sight is so highly ionised that it has no UV transitions. We revisit this issue using the Suzaku X-ray data from PDS 456, an AGN with the most powerful UFO seen in the local Universe. We explore conditions in the wind by developing a new 3-D Monte-Carlo code for radiation transport. The code only handles highly ionised ions, but the data show the ionisation state of the wind is high enough that this is appropriate, and this restriction makes it fast enough to explore parameter space. We reproduce the results of earlier work, confirming that the mass loss rate in the wind is around 30% of the inferred inflow rate through the outer disc. We show for the first time that UV line driving is likely to be a major contribution to the wind acceleration. The mass loss rate in the wind matches that predicted from a purely line driven system, and this UV absorption can take place out of the line of sight. Continuum driving should also play a role as the source is close to Eddington. This predicts that the most extreme outflows will be produced from the highest mass accretion rate flows onto high mass black holes, as observed.
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Past X-ray observations of the nearby luminous quasar PDS 456 (at $z=0.184$) have revealed a wide angle accretion disk wind (Nardini et al. 2015), with an outflow velocity of $sim-0.25c$, as observed through observations of its blue-shifted iron K-sh
ell absorption line profile. Here we present three new XMM-Newton observations of PDS 456; one in September 2018 where the quasar was bright and featureless, and two in September 2019, 22 days apart, occurring when the quasar was five times fainter and where strong blue-shifted lines from the wind were present. During the second September 2019 observation, three broad ($sigma=3000$ km s$^{-1}$) absorption lines were resolved in the high resolution RGS spectrum, which are identified with blue-shifted OVIII Ly$alpha$, NeIX He$alpha$ and NeX Ly$alpha$. The outflow velocity of this soft X-ray absorber was found to be $v/c=-0.258pm0.003$, fully consistent with iron K absorber with $v/c=-0.261pm0.007$. The ionization parameter and column density of the soft X-ray component ($logxi=3.4$, $N_{rm H}=2times10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$) outflow was lower by about two orders of magnitude, when compared to the high ionization wind at iron K ($logxi=5$, $N_{rm H}=7times10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$). Substantial variability was seen in the soft X-ray absorber between the 2019 observations, declining from $N_{rm H}=10^{23}$ cm$^{-2}$ to $N_{rm H}=10^{21}$ cm$^{-2}$ over 20 days, while the iron K component was remarkably stable. We conclude that the soft X-ray wind may originate from an inhomogeneous wind streamline passing across the line of sight and which due to its lower ionization, is located further from the black hole, on parsec scales, than the innermost disk wind.
PDS 456 is a nearby (z=0.184), luminous (L_bol ~10^47 erg/s) type I quasar. A deep 190 ks Suzaku observation in February 2007 revealed the complex, broad band X-ray spectrum of PDS 456. The Suzaku spectrum exhibits highly statistically significant ab
sorption features near 9 keV in the quasar rest--frame. We show that the most plausible origin of the absorption is from blue-shifted resonance (1s-2p) transitions of hydrogen-like iron (at 6.97 keV in the rest frame). This indicates that a highly ionized outflow may be present moving at near relativistic velocities (~0.25c). A possible hard X-ray excess is detected above 15 keV with HXD (at 99.8% confidence), which may arise from high column density gas (Nh>10^24cm^-2) partially covering the X-ray emission, or through strong Compton reflection. Here we propose that the iron K-shell absorption in PDS 456 is associated with a thick, possibly clumpy outflow, covering about 20% of $4pi$ steradian solid angle. The outflow is likely launched from the inner accretion disk, within 15-100 gravitational radii of the black hole. The kinetic power of the outflow may be similar to the bolometric luminosity of PDS 456. Such a powerful wind could have a significant effect on the co-evolution of the host galaxy and its supermassive black hole, through feedback.
We present a newly discovered correlation between the wind outflow velocity and the X-ray luminosity in the luminous ($L_{rm bol}sim10^{47},rm erg,s^{-1}$) nearby ($z=0.184$) quasar PDS,456. All the contemporary XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and Suzaku observat
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Past X-ray observations of the nearby luminous quasar PDS 456 (at $z=0.184$) have revealed a wide angle accretion disk wind (Nardini et al. 2015), with an outflow velocity of $sim-0.25c$. Here we unveil a new, relativistic component of the wind throu
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