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We derive the properties of dusty tori in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the comparison of observed Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of SDSS quasars and a precomputed grid of torus models. The observed SEDs comprise SDSS photometry,…

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…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2009-11-13 M. Schartmann , K. Meisenheimer , M. Camenzind , S. Wolf , K. R. W. Tristram , Th. Henning

The 10-micron silicate feature observed with Spitzer in active galactic nuclei (AGN) reveals some puzzling behavior. It (1) has been detected in emission in type 2 sources, (2) shows broad, flat-topped emission peaks shifted toward long…

宇宙学与河外天体物理 · 物理学 2011-02-11 Robert Nikutta , Moshe Elitzur , Mark Lacy

Dust reprocesses the intrinsic radiation of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) to emerge at longer wavelengths. The observed mid-infrared (MIR) luminosity depends fundamentally on the luminosity of the central engine, but in detail it also…

宇宙学与河外天体物理 · 物理学 2015-05-13 N. A. Levenson , J. T. Radomski , C. Packham , R. E. Mason , J. J. Schaefer , C. M. Telesco

We study the detectability of the emission associated with the AGN dusty structure at sub-mm wavelengths using ALMA, in a theoretical and observational way. Theoretically, we use the Clumpy models from Nenkova et al. together with the…

The reflection spectrum of the torus around AGN is characterized by X-ray fluorescent lines, which are most prominent for type II AGN. A clumpy torus allows photons reflected from the back-side of the torus to leak through the front…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2016-04-06 Jiren Liu , Yuan Liu , Xiaobo Li , Weiwei Xu , Lijun Gou , Cheng Cheng

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…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2009-11-13 J. Fritz , A. Franceschini , E. Hatziminaoglou

In this paper, we try to explain the observed correlation between the covering factor (CF) of hot dust and the properties of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), e.g., the bolometric luminosity ($L_{\rm{bol}}$) and black hole mass…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2015-12-09 Jian-Jian He , Yuan Liu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

According to the unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), a putative dusty torus plays an important role in determining their external appearance. However, very limited information is known about the physical properties of the torus.…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2018-08-08 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho , Jinyi Shangguan

The obscuration observed in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is mainly caused by dust and gas distributed in a torus-like structure surrounding the supermassive black hole (SMBH). However, properties of the obscuring torus of the AGN in X-ray…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2021-06-09 X. Zhao , S. Marchesi , M. Ajello , D. Cole , Z. Hu , R. Silver , N. Torres-Albà

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,…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2010-03-19 M. Polletta , D. Weedman , S. Hoenig , C. J. Lonsdale , H. E. Smith , J. Houck

We have determined the relation between the AGN luminosities at rest-frame 6 {\mu}m associated to the dusty torus emission and at 2-10 keV energies using a complete, X-ray flux limited sample of 232 AGN drawn from the Bright Ultra-hard…

The advent of high-angular resolution IR and sub-mm interferometry allows for spatially-resolved observations of the parsec-scale environment of active galactic nuclei (AGN), commonly referred to as the "torus." While molecular lines show…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2019-11-06 Sebastian F. Hönig

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…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2017-04-05 Sebastian F. Hönig , Makoto Kishimoto

We present the results of a systematic, broadband X-ray spectral analysis of nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with the X-ray clumpy torus model (XCLUMPY; Tanimoto et al. 2019). By adding 16 AGNs newly analyzed in this paper, we study…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2021-01-20 Shoji Ogawa , Yoshihiro Ueda , Atsushi Tanimoto , Satoshi Yamada

Several authors have claimed that the less luminous active galactic nuclei (AGN) are not capable of sustaining the dusty torus structure. Thus, a gradual re-sizing of the torus is expected when the AGN luminosity decreases. Our aim is to…

We apply XCLUMPY, an X-ray spectral model from a clumpy torus in an active galactic nucleus (AGN), to the broadband X-ray spectra of 10 obscured AGNs observed with both Suzaku and NuSTAR. The infrared spectra of these AGNs were analyzed…

高能天体物理现象 · 物理学 2020-07-08 Atsushi Tanimoto , Yoshihiro Ueda , Hirokazu Odaka , Shoji Ogawa , Satoshi Yamada , Toshihiro Kawaguchi , Kohei Ichikawa

We discuss a clumpy model of obscuring dusty tori around AGN. Cloud-cloud collisions lead to an effective viscosity and a geometrically thick accretion disk, which has the required properties of a torus. Accretion in the combined…

天体物理学 · 物理学 2016-08-30 Thomas Beckert , Wolfgang J. Duschl , Bernd Vollmer

We present new mid-infrared (MIR) imaging data for three Type-1 Seyfert galaxies obtained with T-ReCS on the Gemini-South Telescope at subarcsecond resolution. Our aim is to enlarge the sample studied in a previous work to compare the…

Near- and mid-infrared interferometers have resolved the dusty parsec-scale obscurer (torus) around nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs). With the arrival of extremely large single-aperture telescopes, the emission morphology will soon be…

星系天体物理 · 物理学 2021-10-13 R. Nikutta , E. Lopez-Rodriguez , K. Ichikawa , N. A. Levenson , C. Packham , S. F. Hönig , A. Alonso-Herrero