Dusty Structure Around Type-I Active Galactic Nuclei: Clumpy Torus Narrow Line Region and Near-Nucleus Hot Dust

Details Dusty Structure Around Type-I Active Galactic Nuclei: Clumpy Torus Narrow Line Region and Near-Nucleus Hot Dust Dusty Structure Around Type-I Active Galactic Nuclei: Clumpy Torus Narrow Line Region and Near-Nucleus Hot Dust

2009-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1654v1

Astrophys.J.705:298-313,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

14 pages, including 11 figures, submitted to ApJ and revised following the referee's report

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10.1088/0004-637X/705/1/298

We fitted Spitzer/IRS ~2-35 um spectra of 26 luminous QSOs in attempt to define the main emission components. Our model has three major components: a clumpy torus, dusty narrow line region (NLR) clouds and a blackbody-like dust. The models utilize the clumpy torus of Nenkova et al. (2008) and are the first to allow its consistent check in type-I AGNs. Single torus models and combined torus-NLR models fail to fit the spectra of most sources but three component models adequately fit the spectra of all sources. We present torus inclination, cloud distribution, covering factor and torus mass for all sources and compare them with bolometric luminosity, black hole mass and accretion rate. The torus covering factor and mass are found to be correlated with the bolometric luminosity of the sources. We find that a substantial amount of the ~2-7 um radiation originates from a hot dust component, which likely situated in the innermost part of the torus. The luminosity radiated by this component and its covering factor are comparable to those of the torus. We quantify the emission by the NLR clouds and estimate their distance from the center. The distances are ~700 times larger than the dust sublimation radius and the NLR covering factor is about 0.07. The total covering factor by all components is in good agreement with the known AGN type-I:type-II ratio.

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