SAFIR: testing the coexistence of AGN and star formation activity and the nature of the dusty torus in the local Universe

Sánchez-Portal, M.; Castillo-Fraile, M.; Ramos-Almeida, C.; Esquej, P.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Pérez-García, A. M.; Acosta-Pulido, J.; Altieri, B.; Bongiovanni, A.; Castro-Cerón, J. M.; Cepa, J.; Coia, D.; Conversi, L.; Fritz, J.; González-Serrano, J. I.; Hatziminaoglou, E.; Pović, M.; Rodríguez-Espinosa, J. M.; Valtchanov, I.
Bibliographical reference

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 - 13, 2012, Eds.: J.C. Guirado, L.M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas., pp.392-398

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2013
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19
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6
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Description
We present the Seyfert and star formation Activity in the Far-InfraRed (SAFIR) project, a small (15.1 h) Herschel guaranteed time proposal performing PACS and SPIRE imaging of a small sample of nearby Seyfert galaxies. This project is aimed at studying the physical nature of the nuclear IR emission by means of multi-component spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and the star formation properties of AGN hosts, as traced by cold dust. We summarize the results achieved so far and outline the on-going work.