{
  "id": "2403.07086",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-03-11T18:22:49.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-03-11T18:22:49.000Z",
  "title": "Dual Role of Accretion Disk Winds as X-ray Obscurers and UV Line Absorbers in AGN",
  "authors": [
    "Keigo Fukumura",
    "Missagh Mehdipour",
    "Ehud Behar",
    "Chris Shrader",
    "Mauro Dadina",
    "Demosthenes Kazanas",
    "Stefano Marchesi",
    "Francesco Tombesi"
  ],
  "comment": "Comments welcome! (10 pages, 4 figures)",
  "journal": "under review for ApJ, 2024",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "X-ray obscuration of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is considered in the context of ionized winds of stratified structure launched from accretion disks. We argue that a Compton-thick layer of a large-scale disk wind can obscure continuum X-rays and also lead to broad UV absorption such as in the blue wing of Civ; the former originates from the inner wind while the latter from the outer wind as a dual role. Motivated by a number of observational evidence showing strong AGN obscuration phenomena in Seyfert 1 AGNs, we demonstrate in this work, by utilizing a physically-motivated wind model coupled to post-process radiative transfer calculations, that an extended disk wind under certain physical conditions (e.g. morphology and density) could naturally cause a sufficient obscuration qualitatively consistent with UV/X-ray observations. Predicted UV/X-ray correlation is also presented as a consequence of variable spatial size of the wind in this scenario.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-03-11T18:22:49.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "accretion disk winds",
      "uv line absorbers",
      "dual role",
      "x-ray obscurers",
      "strong agn obscuration phenomena"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}