Bibcode
Fuller, Lindsay; Lopez-Rodriguez, Enrique; García-Bernete, Ismael; Ramos Almeida, Cristina; Alonso-Herrero, Almudena; Packham, Chris; Zhang, Lulu; Leist, Mason; Levenson, Nancy A.; Imanishi, Masatoshi; Hoenig, Sebastian; Stalevski, Marko; Ricci, Claudio; Hicks, Erin; Bellocchi, Enrica; Combes, Francoise; Davies, Ric; García Burillo, Santiago; González Martín, Omaira; Izumi, Takuma; Labiano, Alvaro; Pereira Santaella, Miguel; Rigopoulou, Dimitra; Rosario, David; Rouan, Daniel; Shimizu, Taro; Ward, Martin
Referencia bibliográfica
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Fecha de publicación:
2
2025
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Descripción
We present a 19.7–214 μm imaging atlas of local (4–181 Mpc; median 43 Mpc) active galactic nuclei (AGN) observed with FORCAST and HAWC+ on board the SOFIA telescope with angular resolutions ~3″–20″. This atlas comprises 22 Seyferts (17 Type 2 and five Type 1) with a total of 69 images, 41 of which have not been previously published. The AGN span a range of luminosities of with a median of . We provide the total fluxes of our sample using aperture photometry for point-source objects and a 2D Gaussian fitting for objects with extended host galaxy emission, which was used to estimate the unresolved nuclear component. Most galaxies in our sample are pointlike sources; however, four sources (Centaurus A, Circinus, NGC 1068, and NGC 4388) show extended emission in all wavelengths. The 30–40 μm extended emission in NGC 4388 is coincident with the narrow-line region at PA ~ 50°, while the dusty extension at longer wavelengths arises from the host galaxy at PA ~ 90°. Our new observations allow us to construct the best-sampled parsec-scales (spectral energy distributions, SEDs) available between 30 and 500 μm for a sample of nearby AGN. We estimate that the average peak wavelength of the nuclear SEDs is ~40 μm in νFν, which we associate with an unresolved extended dusty region heated by the AGN.