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Powerful Outflows and Feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei

26 Pith papers cite this work, alongside 659 external citations. Polarity classification is still indexing.

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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) represent the growth phases of the supermassive black holes in the center of almost every galaxy. Powerful, highly ionized winds, with velocities $\sim 0.1- 0.2c$ are a common feature in X--ray spectra of luminous AGN, offering a plausible physical origin for the well known connections between the hole and properties of its host. Observability constraints suggest that the winds must be episodic, and detectable only for a few percent of their lifetimes. The most powerful wind feedback, establishing the $M -\sigma$ relation, is probably not directly observable at all. The $M - \sigma$ relation signals a global change in the nature of AGN feedback. At black hole masses below $M-\sigma$ feedback is confined to the immediate vicinity of the hole. At the $M-\sigma$ mass it becomes much more energetic and widespread, and can drive away much of the bulge gas as a fast molecular outflow.

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Is XRISM/Resolve probing a "raining" absorber in Mrk 509?

astro-ph.HE · 2026-05-04 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

XRISM/Resolve data on Mrk 509 show a tentative 3.6-sigma infalling absorber at 11000 km/s located within thousands of gravitational radii, interpreted as raining clumps from a failed wind.

Molecular Outflows in the Nucleus of the Nearby Compton-thick AGN NGC 3079

astro-ph.GA · 2026-04-29 · conditional · novelty 5.0

NOEMA CO(2-1) data show a nuclear molecular outflow in NGC 3079 offset by 14 pc with velocities -350 to -450 km/s, mass outflow rate 8.82 M_sun/yr, kinetic power 3.8e41 erg/s, and momentum rate 15 times the AGN radiation momentum, indicating an energy-driven jet-powered outflow.

Extragalactic astrophysics with next-generation CMB experiments

astro-ph.GA · 2019-07-11 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Next-generation CMB experiments are expected to detect thousands of strongly lensed galaxies to z~6 and proto-clusters, plus tens of thousands of local dusty galaxies and radio sources, enabling new studies of galaxy formation.

Resolved HI and Environmental Dynamics

astro-ph.GA · 2026-07-02 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

SKA-mid AA4 will enable deep, spatially resolved HI imaging over hundreds of square degrees at column densities down to 10^18 cm^{-2} to study environmental gas processes from isolated galaxies to clusters.

AGN Feeding & Feedback Over the Galactic Scales

astro-ph.GA · 2026-06-30 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

SKAO will trace synchrotron jets, thermal emission, and low-column-density HI gas in nearby AGN to characterize duty cycles and multi-phase feeding/feedback linked to star formation.

Unification models of Active Galactic Nuclei

astro-ph.GA · 2026-06-10 · conditional · novelty 2.0

A review of AGN unification concluding that whether a black-hole-powered nucleus appears obscured depends on inclination, Eddington ratio (radiative feedback), and host-galaxy merger/redshift evolution.

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