The Dust Tori in Palomar-Green Quasars

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Dec 2006

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The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos ASP Conference Series, Volume 357, proceedings of the conference held 9-12

Physics

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The dust clouds in the torus of a quasar are irradiated by the central source, and the clouds at the inner radius of the torus re-radiate mostly in the near-infrared (NIR) wavebands. The ratio of the NIR luminosity to the bolometric luminosity LNIR/Lbol can therefore reflect the torus geometry to some extent. We estimate the torus opening angles of Palomar-Green(PG) quasars, and find that the opening angle does not evolve with accretion rate. The opening angle is anti-correlated with the black hole mass, which implies that the formation of torus is regulated by the central black hole. The average estimated relative thickness H/R of the tori in the PG quasars is ˜ 0.9. The further IR observations on a larger quasar sample including fainter quasars by the Spitzer Space Telescope will help our understanding the physics of the dust tori in quasars.

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