Black Hole Winds

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2003-05-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305541v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.345:657,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

3 pages, no figures; MNRAS, in press (with minor corrections applied)

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06980.x

We show that black holes accreting at or above the Eddington rate probably produce winds which are optically thick in the continuum, whether in quasars or X-ray binaries. The photospheric radius and outflow speed are proportional to \mo^2 and \mo^-1 respectively, where \mo is the mass outflow rate. The outflow momentum rate is always of order L_Edd/c. Blackbody emission from these winds may provide the big blue bump in some quasars and AGN, as well as ultrasoft X-ray components in ULXs.

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