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The Role of Outflow Feedback on Accretion of Compact Objects in Accretion Disk of Active Galactic Nuclei

  • Authors: Ken Chen, Jia Ren, Zi-Gao Dai

Ken Chen et al 2023 The Astrophysical Journal 948 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Schematic diagram of the outflow ejected from the circum-CO disk evolving in the AGN disk. (1) The asymptotically isotropic outflow interacts with the AGN disk gas to form a shocked shell; the shell expands to break the AGN disk and punches a cavity. (2) Outflow persistently pushes the ringlike shell along the AGN disk on CO accretion timescale, then the shell undergoes a momentum conservation snowplow phase. (3) After the shell becomes transonic, the surrounding gas instead resumes refilling the low-density cavity. The whole evolution processes proceed circularly.

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