your ID: 0210 First Name: Susmita Last Name: Chakravorty Affiliation: IUCAA (Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics), India Title: Warm absorbers : Stability curve analysis Authors: Susmita Chakravorty, Ajit Kembhavi, Martin Elvis, Gary Ferland Topic: 4 Session: oral Abstract: Thermal equilibrium curves characterising the stability of warm absorbers in AGN have been studied for different ionising continuum shapes and chemical abundances using CLOUDY. Nature of this curve is affected by a number of factors particularly the dielectronic recombination coefficients. The absorber can have continuous pressure distribution or multiphase nature.