Magnetically driven accretion disc winds: the role of gas thermodynamics and comparison to ultra-fast outflows
arXiv:2206.09168 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stac1348
Abstract
Winds are commonly observed in luminous active galactic nuclei (AGNs). A plausible model of those winds is magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) disc winds. In the case of disc winds from a thin accretion disc, isothermal or adiabatic assumption is usually adopted in such MHD models. In this work we perform two-dimensional MHD simulations implementing different thermal treatments (isothermal, adiabatic and radiative) to study their effects on winds from a thin accretion disc. We find that both the isothermal model and the adiabatic model overestimate the temperature, underestimate the power of disc winds, and cannot predict the local structure of the winds, compared to the results obtained by solving the energy equation with radiative cooling and heating. Based on the model with radiative cooling and heating, the ionization parameter, the column density and the velocity of the disc winds have been compared to the observed ultrafast outflows (UFOs). We find that in our simulations the UFOs can only be produced inside hundreds of Schwarzschild radius. At much larger radii, no UFOs are found. Thus, the pure MHD winds cannot interpret all the observed UFOs.
arXiv comment11 pages, 14 figures, published in MNRAS
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