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We present mid-infrared data of a sample of 57 AGNs obtained with the instrument ISOCAM on board the satellite ISO. The images were obtained through the LW2 (6.75 microns) and LW7 (9.62 microns) filters. This is a new analysis of Clavel et…

Tori of Active Galactic Nuclei are made up of a mixture of hot and cold gas, as well as dust. In order to protect the dust grains from destruction by the hot gas as well as by the energetic radiation of the accretion disk, the dust is often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Schartmann , K. Meisenheimer , M. Camenzind , S. Wolf , K. R. W. Tristram , Th. Henning

Advancements in infrared IR open up the possibility to spatially resolve AGN on the parsec-scale level and study the circumnuclear dust distribution, commonly referred to as the "dust torus", that is held responsible for the type 1/type 2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sebastian F. Hoenig , Makoto Kishimoto , Robert Antonucci , Alessandro Marconi , M. Almudena Prieto , Konrad Tristram , Gerd Weigelt

The dusty environments (= "dust tori'') of AGN are now in reach of observations. Following our paper I on ground-based mid-IR spectro-photometry (H\"onig et al. 2010), we present an upgrade to our radiative transfer model of 3-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. F. Hoenig , M. Kishimoto

We describe improved modelling of the emission by dust in a toroidal--like structure heated by a central illuminating source within Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). We chose a simple but realistic torus geometry, a flared disc, and a dust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Fritz , A. Franceschini , E. Hatziminaoglou

This is the second in a series of papers devoted to explore a set of six dusty models of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with available spectral energy distributions (SEDs). These models are the smooth torus by Fritz et al. (2006), the clumpy…

We are conducting a large observing program with the Spitzer Space Telescope to determine the mid-to-far infrared spectral energy distributions of a well-defined sample of 87 nearby, 12 micron-selected Seyfert galaxies. In this paper we…

Thanks to ground-based infrared and sub-mm observations the study of the dusty torus of nearby AGN has greatly advanced in the last years. With the aim of further investigating the nuclear mid-infrared emission of the archetypal Seyfert 2…

Recent infrared interferometric observations revealed sub-parsec scale dust distributions around active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Using images of CLUMPY torus models and NGC 1068 as an example, we demonstrate that the near- and mid-infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 R. Nikutta , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , K. Ichikawa , N. A. Levenson , C. Packham , S. F. Hönig , A. Alonso-Herrero

We present arcsecond-scale observations of the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) of seven nearby Seyfert galaxies observed from the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) using the 31.5 and 37.1 um filters of the Faint Object…

We investigated the emission of active galactic nuclei dusty tori in the infrared domain, with a focus on the 10 micron silicate feature. We modeled the dusty torus as a clumpy two-phase medium with high-density clumps and a low-density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Marko Stalevski , Jacopo Fritz , Maarten Baes , Theodoros Nakos , Luka C. Popovic

We present mid and far IR ISO data of the CfA Seyfert galaxy sample. These data allow a detailed study of the far IR Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) of these galaxies. A Bayesian inversion method has been used to invert the SED of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Perez Garcia J. M. Rodriguez Espinosa

We report far-infrared (FIR) imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081 in the range 70-500 micron, obtained with an unprecedented angular resolution, using the Herschel Space Observatory instruments PACS and SPIRE. The 11 kpc (~70 arcsec)…

We investigate the emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN) dusty tori in the infrared domain. Following theoretical predictions coming from hydrodynamical simulations, we model the dusty torus as a 3D two-phase medium with high-density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-29 Marko Stalevski , Jacopo Fritz , Maarten Baes , Theodoros Nakos , Luka C. Popovic

We use restframe near- and mid-IR data of an isotropically selected sample of quasars and radio galaxies at 1.0 \leq z \leq 1.4, which have been published previously, to study the wavelength-dependent anisotropy of the IR emission. For that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. F. Hoenig , C. Leipski , R. Antonucci , M. Haas

We present the ultraviolet to submillimetre spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the HERschel Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxy Survey (HERUS) sample of 42 local ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) and fit them with a Markov chain…

We have obtained high-resolution mid-infrared (MIR) imaging, nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) and archival Spitzer spectra for 22 low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN; L_bol < 5 x 10^42 erg/s). Infrared (IR) observations…

From extensive radiative transfer calculations we find that clumpy torus models with \No \about 5--15 dusty clouds along radial equatorial rays successfully explain AGN infrared observations. The dust has standard Galactic composition, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Maia Nenkova , Matthew M. Sirocky , Robert Nikutta , Zeljko Ivezic , Moshe Elitzur

Despite the hypothesized similar face-on viewing angles, the infrared emission of type-1 AGNs has diverse spectral energy distribution (SED) shapes that deviate substantially from the well-characterized quasar templates. Motivated by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Jianwei Lyu , George H. Rieke

Mid-infrared (MIR) spectra observed with Gemini/Michelle were used to study the nuclear region of the Compton-thick Seyfert 2 (Sy 2) galaxy Mrk 3 at a spatial resolution of $\sim$200 pc. No polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-11 Dinalva A. Sales , D. Ruschel-Dutra , M. G. Pastoriza , R. Riffel , Cláudia Winge