Oct 19 – 22, 2011
Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA
US/Eastern timezone

Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback

Oct 22, 2011, 10:00 AM
30m
Crystal Ballroom DE (Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA)

Crystal Ballroom DE

Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA

Invited ND. Astronomy

Speaker

Nahum Arav (Virginia Tech)

Description

Sub-relativistic outflows are seen as blueshifted absorption troughs in the spectra of roughly one third of all quasars. I will describe how we determine the mass flux and kinetic luminosity of these outflows and show that the derived values suggest that absorption outflows may be a main agent of AGN feedback scenarios.

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