Radiative transfer simulations of AGN dust tori
Beckert, T. & Hönig, S.
Perspectives in Radiative Transfer and Interferometry
held from May 14-16, 2007 in Château de Pizay, France
S. Wolf, F. Allard and Ph. Stee (eds)
EAS Publications Series, vol. 28, pg. 121-128 (2008)
Abstract
The presence of dust tori in active galactic nuclei (AGN) lies at the heart of AGN unification schemes. The dominating inner part of the tori can only be resolved by
infrared interferometry. Here we discuss the present state of torus models and the radiative transfer methods to simulate the infrared SEDs and visibilities for comparison
with actual observations. We highlight the differences between smooth and clumpy tori and present a model for the Seyfert 2 nucleus NGC 1068.
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