Speaker: Sarah Gallagher<p>
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Resolved: The SED's the Thing<p>
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Quasars' spectral energy distributions are remarkable for the amount
of power emitted across decades of frequency, from the infrared
through the X-ray. The continuum emission from the optical through the
X-ray regime is the primary signature of the accretion disk feeding
the supermassive black hole. We argue that the shape and luminosity of
this primary continuum fundamentally shapes the circumnuclear
environment by launching or suppressing a radiatively driven disk
wind. The properties of the disk wind naturally account for an array
of high-ionization, broad emission-line phenomenology such as CIV
blueshifts and the Baldwin effect.