Outflows from Quasars and Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

Abstract

Mass outflows from Eddington-limited accreting compact objects appear to be a very widespread phenomenon. They may provide the soft excess observed in quasars and ULXs, and imply that such objects have a major effect on their surroundings. In particular they allow a simple parameter-free argument for the M_BH-sigma relation for galaxies, and offer a straightforward interpretation of the emission nebulae seen around ULXs.

6 pages, no figures; to appear in Proc. of the II BeppoSAX Meeting: "The Restless High-Energy Universe" (Amsterdam, May 5-8, 2003), E.P.J. van den Heuvel, J.J.M. in 't Zand, and R.A.M.J. Wijers (Eds); typos corrected

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