Unification of diverse AGN outflows

Diverse outflows have been detected in the proximity to many classes of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the past decades primarily in UV and X-ray spectroscopic observations. This presentation will focus primarily on X-ray-absorbing outflows in AGNs first showing a generic characteristics of the overall blueshifted absorbers at length scale up to pc, followed by a current status of our understanding of its physical properties and geometrical perspective. While challenging and unclear, there has been an attempt in recent years to constrain its launching mechanisms(s) and a global picture of the AGN-driven X-ray outflows. In this talk, I will review the basis of the outflow physics both in observational and theoretical standpoints and further elaborate one of the most promising candidate scenarios where plasma is magnetically launched and accelerated from a black hole accretion disk that is being photoionized by the AGN ionizing radiation field imprinting complex absorption features in X-ray spectrum. As a case study the model is applied to a bright radio-quiet quasar, PG 1211+143, demonstrating its predictable power for various wind properties such as column density, ionization state, line-of-sight angle, AGN SED dependence and density profile of the magnetized wind.