10671(  1) - 04/05/05 12:29  - [  1]

    PROPOSAL FOR HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS   ST ScI Use Only
                                                       ID:      10671
                                                       Version: 1
                                                       Check-in Date: 05-Apr-2005
                                                                      16:29:16

1.Proposal Title:
Accurate Accelerations in AGN Outflows
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2. Proposal For  3. Cycle  4. Parallel Pointing Tolerance
AR               14        <none>
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5. Investigators
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    PI: Dr. Karen M. Leighly              University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
   CoI: Prof. Eddie Baron                 University of Oklahoma Norman Campus          N
   CoI: Mr. Darrin Casebeer               University of Oklahoma Norman Campus          N

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6. Abstract

We propose to construct models of radiation-driven outflows in Active Galactic
Nuclei (AGN). Our models will use the generalized radiative transfer code PHOENIX to
self-consistently compute the line emission and absorption, and the accelerations.
We will use a parameterized dynamical model employing magnetic and radiation
pressure confinement plus continuity and momentum conservation. We will do a
parameter survey, varying the wind footpoint, and the spectral energy distribution,
and constrain the results using HST spectra of broad-absorption line quasars and
narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. The goal of this phase of our model building is to
compute the first accurate accelerations in the context of AGN outflows. Our long
term goal is to compute the range of kinetic luminosities possible from AGN
outflows, and so determine the potential for radiation-driven quasar outflows to act
as a feedback mechanism in models for the coevolution of galaxies and black holes.
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            Summary Form for Proposal  10671

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