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The Grand Finale
Scientific Organizing CommitteeGeorge Chartas (Chair)Karen LeighlyFred HamannMike EracleousAgata RozanskaJames ReevesFrancesco TombesiMike CrenshawTahir Yaqoob
Local Organizing CommitteeGeorge Chartas (Chair)Chris FragileLaura PennyKat LowAlfair Meredith
AGN WINDS IN CHARLESTONA conference dedicated to the physical characteristics of AGN
accretion disk winds and their interaction with their environments
Charleston, SC, USA, 14-18 October 2011
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Topics Spectroscopic and imaging observations of AGN outflowsSimulations and energetics of AGN windsFeedback from AGN winds
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Themes
Down in the trenches: Observations and observational tests
Models and modeling tools
Outflow physics
The big picture
Rhetorical questions
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Down in the trenches: Observations and observational tests
Sophisticated new models,not easy to fit to the data (computationally expensive algorithms).
Mass outflow rates: how robust are the current estimates? Uncertainties include: ξ, ƒV, Cƒ
Need to know the FUV continuum. Do we?
What is the fraction of BAL QSOs regardless of orientation?
What about them UFOs? What is it that the government does not want us to know?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Models and modeling tools
Can model explain the full phenomenology that we observe? Do they allow us to understand variability and transitions between types?
Can Fe K lines they be produced by scattering in the outflow? What about the classic lines of the BLR?
What is the future of Monte-Carlo algorithms/codes?What are the limiting assumptions?
How do we check/compare ionization balance and momentum feedback in different codes.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Outflow physics
What are the crucial parameters that determine the type of outflow? dM/dt, L/LEdd, αox?
Absorbing filaments: models place them very close to the BH as well as very far away. However, whenever we can constrain the distance it turns out to be ~kpc.(need refined models? is there a selection effect?)
What is the connection between the absorbing media observed in different bands (X-ray vs UV absorbers)?
Launching + Acceleration: do we have a progression of different mechanisms over different radii?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
The big picture
Obscuring torus: Is it a dusty outflowing wind or a static structure?
Inflows: What do the models have to say? Can we observe them?
Seyferts: Why do they not have BAL/very fast outflows? Should they?
What is the connection between the inner outflow (r ≪ 0.1 pc) and outer outflow (r > 10-100 pc)?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Existential and rhetorical questions
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Existential and rhetorical questions
What strange thing will Pat Hall talk about at the next meeting?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Existential and rhetorical questions
What strange thing will Pat Hall talk about at the next meeting?
Steve Kraemer’s existential question
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Existential and rhetorical questions
What strange thing will Pat Hall talk about at the next meeting?
Steve Kraemer’s existential question
How do we understand expressions of (hegemonic) masculinity in post-modern/post-colonial AGN outflows.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Applause for the awesome work by the Local Organizing Committee
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011