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This letter presents a revised radiative transfer model for the infrared (IR) emission of active galactic nuclei (AGN). While current models assume that the IR is emitted from a dusty torus in the equatorial plane of the AGN, spatially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Sebastian F. Hönig , Makoto Kishimoto

Spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting is one of most commonly used techniques to study the dust properties in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Works implementing this technique commonly use radiative transfer models that assume a variety…

[Abridged] We present ISO far-infrared (IR) observations of 21 hard X-ray selected AGN from the HEAO-1 A2 sample. We compare the far-IR to X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of this sample with various radio and optically selected…

UV-FIR SED modeling is an effective way to disentangle emission between star formation (SF) and active galactic nuclei (AGN) in galaxies; however, this approach becomes uncertain for composite AGN/SF galaxies that comprise 50-70% of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 Alyssa D. Sokol , M. Yun , A. Pope , A. Kirkpatrick , K. Cooke

We evaluate the underlying assumptions for the identification of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) through near- and mid-infrared photometry and spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting out to z ~ 3. For massive galaxies, log(M) > 9.5, our…

Infrared-faint radio sources (IFRSs) are believed to be a rare class of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (RL AGN) characterized by their high radio-to-infrared flux density ratios of up to several thousands. Previous studies have shown…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-11 Yihang Zhang , Lulu Fan , Tao An , Jun Yang , Weibin Sun , Haoran Yu , Yunkun Han

We assemble a broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) ranging from optical to mid-infrared of nearby active galactic nuclei at $z < 0.4$. SED fitting analysis is performed using semi-empirical templates derived from Palomar-Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-23 Suyeon Son , Minjin Kim , Luis C. Ho

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

Models invoking large populations of obscured AGN are known to provide good fits to the spectrum of the X-ray background and the observed soft and hard X-ray number counts. An important consequence of these models is that significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. F. Gunn , T. Shanks

We use photometric and spectroscopic infrared observations obtained with the Spitzer Space Telescope of 12 radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) to investigate the dust geometry. Our approach is to look at the change of the infrared…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hermine Landt , Catherine L. Buchanan , Pauline Barmby

We fitted the optical to mid-infrared (MIR) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of ~15000 type-I, 0.75<z<2, active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in an attempt to constrain the properties of the physical component responsible for the rest-frame…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Rivay Mor , Benny Trakhtenbrot

We investigate models for the power supply and broad-band spectral energy distribution (SED) of hyperluminous IR galaxies, recently discovered at high redshifts, in terms of the emission from an active nucleus embedded in a torus-like dusty…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Gian Luigi Granato , Luigi Danese , Alberto Franceschini

The emission of warm dust dominates the mid-infrared spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Only interferometric observations provide the necessary angular resolution to resolve the nuclear dust and to study its distribution and…

We investigate the mid-infrared radiation of galaxies that are powered by a starburst or by an AGN. For this end, we compare the spectra obtained at different spatial scales in a sample of infrared bright galaxies. ISO observations which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 R. Siebenmorgen , E. Kr"ugel , H. W. W. Spoon

We have developed an efficient Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) selection method using 18-band Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) fitting in mid-infrared (mid-IR). AGNs are often obscured by gas and dust, and those obscured AGNs tend to be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-29 Ting-Chi Huang , Tomotsugu Goto , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Nagisa Oi , Hideo Matsuhara

This work focuses on the properties of dusty tori in active galactic nuclei (AGN) derived from the comparison of SDSS type 1 quasars with mid-Infrared (MIR) counterparts and a new, detailed torus model. The infrared data were taken by the…

The combination of the AKARI and WISE infrared all-sky surveys provides an unique opportunity to identify and characterize the most highly dust obscured AGNs in the universe. Dust-obscured AGNs are not easily detectable and potentially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-06 Anson Lam , Matthew A. Malkan , Edward L. Wright

At distances from the active galaxy nucleus (AGN) where the ambient temperature falls below ~1500-1800 K, dust is able to survive. It is thus possible to have a large dusty structure present which surrounds the AGN. This is the first of two…

We present near-infrared K- (1.9-2.5 micrometer) and L- (2.8-4.2 micrometer) band spectroscopy of 22 Seyfert nuclei. We use two methods to investigate the presence of nuclear starbursts: (1) the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Nagisa Oi , Masatoshi Imanishi , Keisuke Imase

We explore the effects of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation activity on the infrared (0.3-1000 microns) spectral energy distributions of luminous infrared galaxies from z = 0.5 to 4.0. We have compiled a large sample of 151…