AGN obscuration through dusty infrared dominated flows. I. Radiation-hydrodynamics solution for the wind

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2011-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/1108.3766v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

28 pages, 7 figures; accepted to ApJ, minor corrections

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We construct a radiation-hydrodynamics model for the obscuring toroidal structure in active galactic nuclei. In this model the obscuration is produced at parsec scale by a dense, dusty wind which is supported by infrared radiation pressure on dust grains. To find the distribution of radiation pressure, we numerically solve the 2D radiation transfer problem in a flux limited diffusion approximation. We iteratively couple the solution with calculations of stationary 1D models for the wind, and obtain the z-component of the velocity. Our results demonstrate that for AGN luminosities greater than 0.1 Ledd external illumination can support a geometrically thick obscuration via outflows driven by infrared radiation pressure. The terminal velocity of marginally Compton-thin models (0.2

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