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The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: Molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds (2017)
Journal Article
Richings, A. J., & Faucher-Giguère, C. A. (2018). The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: Molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(3), 3673-3699. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3014

We explore the origin of fast molecular outflows that have been observed in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Previous numerical studies have shown that it is difficult to create such an outflow by accelerating existing molecular clouds in the host gala... Read More about The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: Molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds.

Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos (2017)
Journal Article
Oppenheimer, B. D., Segers, M., Schaye, J., Richings, A. J., & Crain, R. A. (2018). Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 474(4), 4740-4755. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2967

Proximity zone fossils (PZFs) are ionization signatures around recently active galactic nuclei (AGNs) where metal species in the circumgalactic medium remain overionized after the AGNs have shut offdue to their long recombination time scales. We expl... Read More about Flickering AGN can explain the strong circumgalactic OVI observed by COS-Halos.

Metals in the circumgalactic medium are out of ionization equilibrium due to fluctuating active galactic nuclei (2017)
Journal Article
Segers, M. C., Oppenheimer, B. D., Schaye, J., & Richings, A. J. (2017). Metals in the circumgalactic medium are out of ionization equilibrium due to fluctuating active galactic nuclei. Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471(1), 1026-1044. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STX1633

We study the effect of a fluctuating active galactic nucleus (AGN) on the abundance of circumgalactic OVI in galaxies selected from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments simulations. We follow the time-variable OVI abundance i... Read More about Metals in the circumgalactic medium are out of ionization equilibrium due to fluctuating active galactic nuclei.