The obscuring torus in AGN

Details The obscuring torus in AGN The obscuring torus in AGN

Nov 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006newar..50..728e&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 50, Issue 9-10, p. 728-731.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) require an obscuring dusty torus around the central engine. Torus sizes of hundreds of parsecs were deduced from early theoretical modeling efforts, but high-resolution IR observations now show that the torus size is no more than a few parsecs. This conflict is resolved when the clumpy nature of the torus is taken into account. The compact torus may be best understood when identified with the dusty, optically thick region of the wind coming off the central accretion disk.

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