Modeling Observational Signatures of Disk-Driven Outflows

Abstract

We present a self-consistent, semi-analytical dynamical model of disk driven outflows in AGNs that are accelerated by a combination of magnetic stresses and radiation pressure. This model will make it possible to examine scenarios in which the wind is homogeneous as well as cases where it consists of dense clouds embedded in a more tenuous, magnetized medium. The various ingredients of this model will be tested through quantitative predictions from both multiwavelength spectral observations and reverberation mapping of AGNs.

7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in "Probing the Physics of AGN by Multiwavelength Monitoring", eds. B.M. Peterson, R.S. Polidan, and R.W. Pogge, ASP Conference Series