Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21832720w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #327.20; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
While feedback from the central supermassive black hole likely affects the host galaxy evolution in the distant universe, we can not directly observe these processes at work. We can, however, easily observe the host galaxy and AGN properties of nearby sources. Previous surveys of outflows in local AGN relied on biased samples of the UV/soft X-ray brightest sources, making their results also biased. To understand the true outflow properties in a local sample of AGN, we present our results from optical and X-ray spectroscopic follow-ups of a sample of Seyfert 1s detected in the very hard X-rays (14-195 keV) with the Swift Burst Alert Telescope. Due to the high energy selection, this survey is largely unbiased to the gas and dust which obscures softer bands. We find that outflows are detected in a majority of the sample and may be present in all local Seyfert 1s. This implies a covering fraction of the outflows much larger than previous results, which means that more kinetic energy is available in the outflows of low luminosity sources than previously thought.
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