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A&A
Volume 635, March 2020
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Article Number | L5 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Letters to the Editor | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937292 | |
Published online | 10 March 2020 |
Letter to the Editor
The WISSH quasars project
VII. The impact of extreme radiative field in the accretion disc and X-ray corona interplay
1
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via di Frascati 33, 00078 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
e-mail: luca.zappacosta@inaf.it
2
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Dep. de Astrofísica, Camino Bajo del Castillo s/n, Villanueva de la Cañada 28692 Madrid, Spain
3
INAF – IASF Milano, via A. Corti 12, 20133 Milano, Italy
4
Aix Marseille Univ., CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Université degli Studi di Bologna, via Gobetti 93/2, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, Via Gobetti 93/3, 40129 Bologna, Italy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bloomberg Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
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INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Via G. Tiepolo 11, 34143 Trieste, Italy
9
Department of Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
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Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Firenze, Via G. Sansone 1, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy
11
INAF – Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
12
Núcleo de Astronomía de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Diego Portales, Av. Ejército Libertador 441, Santiago, Chile
13
Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, PR China
Received:
10
December
2019
Accepted:
31
January
2020
Hyper-luminous quasars (Lbol ≳ 1047 erg s−1) are ideal laboratories to study the interaction and impact of the extreme radiative field and the most powerful winds in the active galactic nuclei (AGN) nuclear regions. They typically exhibit low coronal X-ray luminosity (LX) compared to the ultraviolet (UV) and mid-infrared (MIR) radiative outputs (LUV and LUV); a non-negligible fraction of them report even ∼1 dex weaker LX compared to the prediction of the well established LX–LUV and LX–LUV relations followed by the bulk of the AGN population. In our WISE/SDSS-selected Hyper-luminous (WISSH) z = 2 − 4 broad-line quasar sample, we report on the discovery of a dependence between the intrinsic 2–10 keV luminosity (L2 − 10) and the blueshifted velocity of the CIV emission line (vCIV) that is indicative of accretion disc winds. In particular, sources with the fastest winds (vCIV ≳ 3000 km s−1) possess ∼0.5–1 dex lower L2 − 10 than sources with negligible vCIV. No similar dependence is found on LUV, LUV, Lbol, the photon index, or the absorption column density. We interpret these findings in the context of accretion disc wind models. Both magnetohydrodynamic and line-driven models can qualitatively explain the reported relations as a consequence of X-ray shielding from the inner wind regions. In case of line-driven winds, the launch of fast winds is favoured by a reduced X-ray emission, and we speculate that these winds may play a role in directly limiting the coronal hard X-ray production.
Key words: X-rays: galaxies / galaxies: active / quasars: emission lines / quasars: supermassive black holes / galaxies: high-redshift
© ESO 2020
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