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Variable Nature of Magnetically Driven Ultra-fast Outflows

Keigo Fukumura, D. Kazanas, C. R. Shrader, Ehud Behar, Francesco Tombesi, Ioannis Contopoulos

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2018

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Summary

Among a number of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that drive ionized outflows in X-rays, a low-redshift (<i>z</i> = 0.184) quasar, PDS 456, is long known to exhibit one of the exemplary ultra-fast outflows (UFOs). However, the physical process of acceleration mechanism is yet to be definitively constrained. In this work, we model the variations of the Fe K UFO properties in PDS 456 over many epochs in X-ray observations in the context of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) accretion-disk winds employed in our earlier studies of similar X-ray absorbers. We applied the model to the 2013/2014 <i>XMM-Newton/NuSTAR</i> spectra to determine the UFO's condition; namely, velocity, ionization parameter, column density and equivalent width (EW). Under some provisions on the dependence of X-ray luminosity on the

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/aadd10
Catalogue ID
SNmoic233a-fdek5v
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