2025MNRAS.540.2530P -
Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 540, 2530-2534 (2025/July-1)
Observing the launch of an Eddington wind in the luminous Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143.
POUNDS K. and PAGE K.
Abstract (from CDS):
The luminous narrow-line Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143 was the first non Broad Absorption Line (BAL) active galactic nucleus (AGN) to reveal a powerful ionized wind, based on early observations with the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory. Subsequent observations, mainly with XMM-Newton and the Japanese Suzaku Observatory, found such winds to be a common feature of luminous AGN. Typical outflow velocities v$\sim 0.1$c and flow momenta mv$\sim \ L_{\mathrm{ Edd}} /c$ are consistent with winds being launched by continuum driving from a disc when the local mass accretion rate is super-Eddington. Here, we report the launch of a new, ultra-fast outflow component in PG1211+143 near the end of a 5-week XMM-Newton observing campaign, and discuss its origin in an ultra-fast inflow detected ∼3 weeks earlier. We note that the inflow lasted for at least 3 d and delivered at least 10 Earth mass of fresh material into the innermost region of the source. While this mass by itself is insufficient to cause a complete inner disc restructuring - a prediction supported by lack of change in simultaneous ultraviolet fluxes - we suggest that a ring of matter at $R\sim 20 R_{\rm g}$, located via its gravitational redshift, was subsequently accreted, leading to the launch of a new outflow at a velocity v$\sim 0.27$c.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
accretion, accretion discs - galaxies: active - galaxies: individual: PG1211+143 - quasars: general - galaxies: Seyfert - X-rays: galaxies
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