Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-08-11
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.318:L11,2000
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, MNRAS accepted
Scientific paper
The two brightest hard X-ray sources discovered serendipitously by Chandra in the field of the lensing cluster A2390 are found to have ISOCAM counterparts at 6.7 and 15 micron. We use this fact, together with their non-detection by SCUBA at 850 micron, as the basis for DUSTY radiative transfer modelling of their infrared spectral energy distributions. For the best-fitting models, we find that the dust which reprocesses the optical--UV light in these Compton-thin AGN is heated to near its sublimation temperature (above 1000K), with an inner radius within a parsec of the nucleus. Some warm dust models with inner temperatures of 200K are also formally acceptable. These findings strongly support the obscured AGN hypothesis for the new hard X-ray Chandra sources, which lack both strong emission lines and 850 micron SCUBA detections.
Fabian Andrea C.
Gandhi Poshak
Wilman Richard J.
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