X-ray polarization signature of warm absorber winds in AGN |
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Authors: | A Dorodnitsyn T Kallman |
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Institution: | (1) Departments of Astronomy and Physics, and Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 4302 Chamberlin Hall, 1150 University Avenue, Madison, 53706, WI, USA |
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Abstract: | Accretion onto a supermassive black hole in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), Seyfert galaxies and quasars is often accompanied
by winds which are powerful enough to affect the AGN mass budget, and whose observational appearance bears an imprint of processes
which are happening within the central parsec around the black hole (BH). One example of such a wind is the partially ionized
gas responsible for X-ray and UV absorption (‘warm absorbers’). Here we perform 3D calculations of transfer of polarized light
in 0.1–10 keV range from hydrodynamical model of warm absorber flow and show that such gas will have a distinct signature
when viewed in polarized X-rays and it will be detectable by future dedicated X-ray polarimetry space missions, such as the
NASA Gravity and Extreme Magnetism SMEX, GEMS. |
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