Viewing the circumnuclear medium "through" the radio absorption

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2001-09-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109056v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Invited review, to appear in "Issues of unifications of AGNs" eds. R. Maiolino, A. Marconi and N. Nagar, ASP Conf. Series in p

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Observations of radio absorption (free-free and 21 cm neutral hydrogen absorption) can provide important constraints on the interstellar medium (either ionised or neutral) surrounding AGN. This gas is relevant in the obscuration of the central regions and, therefore, in producing the orientation-dependent aspects of the emission from the AGN itself, one of the key elements of the unified schemes. From these observations we can learn: how strong is the evidence for circumnuclear tori/disks and how often, instead, is the interaction between the radio plasma and large-scale ISM playing a role; are the tori/disks (when observed) thick or thin and how important is this gas in affecting the characteristics of radio sources, especially in their early phase. Here, I will summarise the recent results obtained from free-free and HI absorption observations of Seyfert and radio galaxies, what they can tell us about these issues, and which questions remain open.

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