Bibcode
Packham, Christopher C.; Levenson, N.; Ramos Almeida, C.; Radomski, J.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Rodríguez Espinosa, J.; Asensio Ramos, A.; Mason, R.; Fisher, S.; Telesco, C.; Schaefer, J.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #411.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.242
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2010
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Descripción
On-going explorations of AGN based at mid-IR wavelengths has tightly
constrained individual torus sizes to a few pc and found that spectral
fitting in the N band window is consistent with toroidal obscuration at
the center of AGN in a non-homogenous or `clumpy’ structure. We
discuss results of two recent papers where we combine our mid-IR data
with data at other wavelengths to further constrain the torus size and
structure. In the first paper, we combine archival high spatial
resolution near-IR data with our mid-IR observations to construct an IR
SED, which is then fit to the clump torus model. In the second paper we
construct at optimal spatial resolution a mid-IR to x-ray correlation,
comparing carefully the AGN types. We discuss the implications to models
of the AGN torus.