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The torus in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is a complex dynamical structure of gas and dust. It is thought to be composed of an equatorial dusty disk and a polar dusty wind launched by radiation pressure. However, this picture is based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Farin Drewes , James H. Leftley , Sebastian F. Hönig , Konrad W. Tristram , Makoto Kishimoto

We present ISOPHOT_S, ISOSWS and 8 to 13 micron ground based observations of Centaurus A that show prominent PAH and silicate features. These and other data are used to construct a model for the infrared continuum. We find that in a nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Alexander , A. Efstathiou , J. H. Hough , D. Aitken , D. Lutz , P. Roche , E. Sturm

We present a new method to predict the line-of-sight column density (NH) values of active galactic nuclei (AGN) based on mid-infrared (MIR), soft, and hard X-ray data. We developed a multiple linear regression machine learning algorithm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-05 Ross Silver , Núria Torres-Alba , Xiurui Zhao , Stefano Marchesi , Andrealuna Pizzetti , Isaiah Cox , Marco Ajello

We present near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopic observations of 28 X-ray and mid-infrared selected sources at a median redshift of z~0.8 in the Extended Groth Strip (EGS). To date this is the largest compilation of NIR spectra of active…

We present the first results of the Galaxy Activity, Torus and Outflow Survey (GATOS), a project aimed at understanding the properties of the dusty molecular tori and their connection to the host galaxy in nearby Seyfert galaxies. Our…

We propose a novel method to constrain the spatial extent of dust around galaxies through the measurement of dust temperature. Our method combines the dust emission of galaxies from far-infrared (FIR) image stacking analysis and the quasar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Toshiya Kashiwagi , Yasushi Suto

In this manuscript, an independent method is proposed to estimate opening angle of dust torus in AGN, through unique properties of Type-1.9 AGN with double-peaked broad H$\alpha$ (Type-1.9 DPAGN) coming from central accretion disk. Type-1.9…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-01 XueGuang Zhang

Deep surveys of {\em Chandra} and {\em HST} (Hubble Space Telescope) show that active galactic nucleus (AGN) populations are changing with hard X-ray luminosities. This arises an interesting question whether the dusty torus is evolving with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -M. Wang , E. P. Zhang , B. Luo

Unveiling the structure of the Broad Line Region (BLR) of AGN is critical to understand the quasar phenomenon. Detail study of the geometry and kinematic of these objects can answer the basic questions about the central BH mass, accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-14 Suvendu Rakshit , Romain G. Petrov

We model the spectropolarimetric signature resulting from the radiative coupling between the innermost parts of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We use a new public version of STOKES, a Monte Carlo radiative transfer code presented in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Marin , R. W. Goosmann , C. M. Gaskell , D. Porquet , M. Dovciak

We present rest-frame far-infrared (FIR) and optical size measurements of AGN hosts and star-forming galaxies in the COSMOS field, enabled by high-resolution ALMA/1 mm (0.1 arcsec - 0.4 arcsec) and HST/F814W imaging (~ 0.1 arcsec). Our…

The presence of obscuring material (or a dusty `torus') in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is central to the unification model for AGN. Two models, the multi-population model for radio sources and the receding torus model, are capable of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. G. Arshakian

We analyze the link between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and mid-infrared flux using dust radiative transfer calculations of starbursts realized in hydrodynamical simulations. Focusing on the effects of galaxy dust, we evaluate diagnostics…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-12 Gregory F. Snyder , Christopher C. Hayward , Anna Sajina , Patrik Jonsson , Thomas J. Cox , Lars Hernquist , Philip F. Hopkins , Lin Yan

We present the 4MOST IR AGN survey, the first large-scale optical spectroscopic survey characterizing mid-infrared (MIR) selected obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). The survey targets $\approx 212,000$ obscured infrared (IR) AGN…

We investigate the mid- (MIR) to far-infrared (FIR) properties of a nearly complete sample of local Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) detected in the Swift/BAT all sky hard X-ray (14-195 keV) survey, based on the cross correlation with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Kohei Ichikawa , Yoshihiro Ueda , Yuichi Terashima , Shinki Oyabu , Poshak Gandhi , Keiko Matsuta , Takao Nakagawa

We investigate the radial structure of active galactic nuclei (AGN) dusty tori by forward-modeling mid-infrared (MIR) spectra observed with JWST/MIRI-MRS for a sample of 25 AGN. We develop a physically motivated three dimensional radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Ruiyu Pan , Arkaprabha Sarangi

We revisit the relation between active galactic nucleus (AGN) broad-line region (BLR) size and luminosity by conducting a uniform H$\beta$ reverberation-mapping analysis for 212 AGNs with archival light curves. Our analysis incorporates…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-29 Shu Wang , Jong-Hak Woo

We investigate the relation between star formation (SF) and black hole accretion luminosities, using a sample of 492 type-2 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z < 0.22, which are detected in the far-infrared (FIR) surveys with AKARI and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-25 Kenta Matsuoka , Jong-Hak Woo

The star formation rate (SFR) is one of the most fundamental parameters of galaxies, but nearly all of the standard SFR diagnostics are difficult to measure in active galaxies because of contamination from the active galactic nucleus (AGN).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-21 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho , Jinyi Shangguan

The luminous electromagnetic emission from distant active galactic nuclei (AGNs) including quasars is believed to be powered by accretion onto super-massive black holes (SMBHs). In the standard unification model for AGNs a dusty torus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shuang Nan Zhang
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