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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ramos Almeida, C.
• Sánchez-Portal, M.
• Pérez García, A. M.
• Acosta-Pulido, J. A.
• Castillo, M.
• Asensio Ramos, A.
• González-Serrano, J. I.
• Alonso-Herrero, A.
• Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.
• Hatziminaoglou, E.
• Coia, D.
• Valtchanov, I.
• Pović, M.
• Esquej, P.
• Packham, C.
• Altieri, B.

Titel

Resolving the nuclear dust distribution of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081

Ist Teil von

• Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters, 2011-10, Vol.417 (1), p.L46-L50

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• ABSTRACT We report far‐infrared (FIR) imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081 in the range 70–500 μm, obtained with an unprecedented angular resolution, using the Herschel Space Observatory instruments PACS and SPIRE. The 11 kpc (∼70 arcsec) diameter star‐forming ring of the galaxy appears resolved up to 250 μm. We extracted IR (1.6–500 μm) nuclear fluxes, that is active nucleus‐dominated fluxes, and fitted them with clumpy torus models, which successfully reproduce the FIR emission with small torus sizes. Adding the FIR data to the near‐ and mid‐IR spectral energy distribution (SED) results in a torus radial extent of Ro= 4+2− 1 pc, as well as in a flat radial distribution of the clouds (i.e. the q parameter). At wavelengths beyond 200 μm, cold dust emission at T= 28 ± 1 K from the circumnuclear star‐forming ring of 2.3 kpc (∼15 arcsec) in diameter starts making a contribution to the nuclear emission. The dust in the outer parts of the galaxy is heated by the interstellar radiation field (19 ± 3 K).