We performed imaging on 49 type 2 Seyfert galaxies in 6 near- and mid-infrared bands (1-10μm). We are separating the contribution of the torus from the host galaxy by radial profile fitting techniques and we will compare the observed spectral energy distributions with theoretical models of torus emission to constrain geometrical and physical parameters.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612646,
title = {On the Infrared Properties of Dusty Torus},
author = {L. Videla and P. Lira and A. Alonso-Herrero and D. M. Alexander and M. Ward},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612646},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Conference proceedings to appear in "The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei", ed. L. C. Ho and J.-M. Wang (San Francisco: ASP)