期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 415, 期 1, 页码 L6-L10出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01067.x
关键词
accretion, accretion discs; black hole physics; galaxies: evolution; quasars: general
资金
- STFC
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H002235/1] Funding Source: researchfish
We discuss massive outflows in galaxy bulges, particularly the ones driven by accretion episodes where the central supermassive black hole reaches the Eddington limit. We show that the quasar radiation field Compton-cools the wind shock until this reaches distances similar to 1 kpc from the black hole, but becomes too dilute to do this at larger radii. Radiative processes cannot cool the shocked gas within the flow time at any radius. Outflows are therefore momentum driven at small radii (as required to explain the M-sigma relation). At large radii, they are energy driven, contrary to recent claims. We solve analytically the motion of an energy-driven shell after the central source has turned off. This shows that the thermal energy in the shocked wind can drive further expansion for a time similar to 10 times longer than the active time of the central source. Outflows observed at large radii with no active central source probably result from an earlier short (few Myr) active phase of this source.
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