Physics – Optics
Scientific paper
Oct 1997
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997phdt........35m&link_type=abstract
PhD Theses
Physics
Optics
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Astronomical Instruments, Adaptive Optics, Methods: Observational, Infrared: Galaxies, Galaxies: Active Nuclei, Galaxies: Seyfert
Scientific paper
High angular resolution observation has greatly benefitted from adaptive optic systems working in the infrared. The COMIC camera, the second camera dedicated to ADONIS, the ESO 3.60 meter telescope adaptive optics system, allows observation in the spectral range 3-5 micron at the diffraction limit of the telescope. The characterization of the camera at the Meudon and Grenoble laboratories, then its performances determination on the sky in Chile constitute the first part of this dissertation. A new method for evaluating the limiting magnitudes is proposed which takes into account the various contributions to the detectivity loss between laboratory testing and real condition observations. This approach can be transferred to any other case where a priori observing conditions are known ( Strehl ratio or seeing ). Study of the central region of Active Galactic Nuclei (~1 arcsec) requires high angular resolution. In particular, warm and hot dust is emissive in the 1-5 micron spectral region. Thus, adaptive optics observations are well suited to AGN observation. It is predicted that the central engine and its neighboring environment are embedded within an optically thin dusty/molecular torus which may, along some lines of sight, obscure and even fully hide the nuclear emission leading to distinct observational properties for objects supposed to be identical. Observations made with ADONIS & COMIC of NGC7469 and NGC1068 have shown large amounts of dust located in the torus but also mixed with gas from the narrow line emission region. The high angular resolution achieved has allowed the determination of the dust temperature, mass and spatial distribution around the AGN central engine. These results are in agreement with several torus models and could help to constrain them.
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