Table 8: Physical properties for each warm absorber phase in NGC 7469: absorber phase, log ionisation parameter (log $\xi $; erg cm s$^{\rm -1}$), log column density (log $N_{\rm H}$; cm$^{\rm -2}$), outflow speed (v; km s$^{\rm -1}$), covering factor (f), percentage volume filling factor (% $C_{\rm v}$), mass outflow rate per phase ( ${\dot M}_{\rm out}$; $M_\odot $ yr$^{\rm -1}$), log kinetic luminosity of outflow (log  $L_{\rm KE}$; erg s$^{\rm -1}$).
Phase Log $\xi $ Log $N_{\rm H}$ v f % $C_{\rm v}$ ${\dot M}_{\rm out}$ Log $L_{\rm KE}$
X-ray component 1 0.8 19.5 2300 1 0.0005 0.002 39.6
X-ray component 2 2.73 21.3 720 1 2 0.03 39.7
X-ray component 3 3.56 21.5 580 1 12 0.02 39.4
UV component 1 1.61a 20.0 562 0.53 0.04 0.006 38.7
UV component 2 0.51a 18.6 1901 0.93 0.00007 0.0004 38.7
a Converted from U to $\xi $ using the Scott et al. (2005) SED, and rescaled to take into account the change in ionising luminosity between the 2002 and 2004 observations.

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