Dusty Tori of Seyfert Nuclei
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Dusty tori around active galactic nuclei (AGNs) play an important role in the classification of Seyfert galaxies. Therefore, physical properties of dusty tori are of great interest. We briefly introduce three statistical studies investigating properties of dusty tori; 1) physical sizes of dusty tori based on water-vapor maser emission, 2) ionization condition of the inner wall of tori based on high-ionization emission lines, and 3) viewing angle toward dusty tori based on mid-infrared color.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0001452,
title = {Dusty Tori of Seyfert Nuclei},
author = {Yoshiaki Taniguchi and Takashi Murayama and Hideaki Mouri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0001452},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages, to appear in `ASCA/ROSAT Workshop on AGN and the X-ray Background', Tokyo, Nov. 1-3, 1999, eds. T. Takahashi and H. Inoue