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We report new HST WFPC2 and NICMOS observations of the center of the nearest radio galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) and discuss their implications for our understanding of the active nucleus and jet. We detect the active nucleus in the near-IR…

(abridged) This paper is the second part of a work investigating the properties of dusty tori in AGN by means of multi-component SED fitting. It focuses on low luminosity, low redshift (z < 0.25) AGN selected among emission line galaxies as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Evanthia Hatziminaoglou , Jacopo Fritz , Tom Jarrett

A Suzaku observation of the nucleus of the radio-loud AGN Centaurus A in 2005 has yielded a broadband spectrum spanning 0.3 to 250 keV. The net exposure times after screening were: 70 ks per X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) camera, 60.8 ks…

We probe the possibility that Centaurus A (Cen A) is a point source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) observed by PAO, through the statistical analysis of the arrival direction distribution. For this purpose, we set up the Cen A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Hang Bae Kim

We revisit the average hard X-ray spectrum from the AGN of Centaurus A (Cen A) using ten years worth of observations with INTEGRAL SPI. This source has the highest flux observed from any AGN in the SPI bandpass (23 keV--8 MeV). The 10 year…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Mark J. Burke , Elisabeth Jourdain , Jean-Pierre Roques , Daniel A. Evans

We present X-ray spectra of the nucleus of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A from observations with the XMM-Newton EPIC CCD cameras (two exposures separated by 12 months) and the Chandra HETGS. For the first time in an FRI type galaxy, we…

We identify optical emission-line features 700" (12 kpc) southwest of the nucleus of Centaurus A, roughly opposite the radio jet and well-known optical emission filaments associated with the northern radio structure. These regions are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 William C. Keel , Julie K. Banfield , Anne Medling , Susan G. Neff

Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central engine. Torus sizes of hundreds of parsecs were deduced from early theoretical modeling efforts, but high-resolution IR observations now…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Moshe Elitzur

We present an analysis of the average spectral properties of 12,000 SDSS quasars as a function of accretion disc inclination, as measured from the equivalent width of the [O III] 5007{\AA} line. The use of this indicator on a large sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-16 Susanna Bisogni , Alessandro Marconi , Guido Risaliti , Elisabeta Lusso

The spectral energy distributions and infrared (IR) spectra of a sample of obscured AGNs selected in the mid-IR are modeled with recent clumpy torus models to investigate the nature of the sources, the properties of the obscuring matter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-19 M. Polletta , D. Weedman , S. Hoenig , C. J. Lonsdale , H. E. Smith , J. Houck

(abridged) It is generally assumed that the distribution of dust on parsec scales forms a geometrically- and optically-thick entity in the equatorial plane around the accretion disk and broad-line region - dubbed "dust torus" - that emits…

The NASA/ISO Key Project on active galactic nuclei (AGN) seeks to better understand the broad-band spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these sources from radio to X-rays, with particular emphasis on infrared properties. The ISO sample…

Present AGN models aiming to account for the observed infrared SEDs consider a physical description of the dust and a solution of the radiative transfer problem. Mid infrared spectra obtained at different spatial scales are presented. They…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ralf Siebenmorgen , Andreas Efstathiou

We present far-IR photometry and infrared spectrum of the z=3.9114 quasar/starburst composite system APM 08279+5255 obtained using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)/HAWC+ and the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared…

The Sydney University Stellar Interferometer (SUSI) has been used to make a new determination of the angular diameter of Sirius A. The observations were made at an effective wavelength of 694.1 nm and the new value for the limb-darkened…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Davis , M. J. Ireland , J. R. North , J. G. Robertson , W. J. Tango , P. G. Tuthill

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observed 52 Centaurs and Scattered Disk Objects in the thermal infrared, including the 15 discoveries that were new. We present analyses of these observations to estimate sizes and mean optical…

We present mid-IR imaging observations of a high Galactic latitude cirrus obtained with the ISO camera ISOCAM at 6" angular resolution. The observations were done with two filters LW2 (5-8.5 microns) and LW3 (12-18 microns) that measure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. -A. Miville-Deschenes , F. Boulanger , G. Joncas , E. Falgarone

We performed near-diffraction-limited (~0.4 FWHM) N-band imaging of one of the nearest Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) in M51 with 8.2m Subaru telescope to study the nuclear structure and spectral energy distribution (SED) at 8-13 um. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Youichi Ohyama , Satoki Matsushita , Nagisa Oi , Ai-Lei Sun

We present the results of a VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP) observation of the subparsec structure in Centaurus A at 4.9 GHz. Owing to its proximity, our Centaurus A space-VLBI image is one of the highest spatial resolution images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Shinji Horiuchi , David L. Meier , Robert A. Preston , Steven J. Tingay

We present radiative transfer models for submillimeter galaxies with spectroscopic redshifts and mid-infrared spectroscopy from Spitzer/IRS and analyze available Spitzer/MIPS 24, 70 and 160mu data. We use two types of starburst models, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andreas Efstathiou , Ralf Siebenmorgen