Radiative transfer in axi-symmetric dust clouds around AGN
Abstract
We have developed a new radiative transfer code to study the thermally reradiated emission from an optically and geometrically thick torus of dusk which partially obscures the central regions of an active galactic nucleus. We discuss the spectral and angular distributions of the radiated energy over range of model parameters and viewing angles.
- Publication:
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Testing the AGN paradigm
- Pub Date:
- May 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.42226
- Bibcode:
- 1992AIPC..254..508P
- Keywords:
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- Active Galactic Nuclei;
- Cosmic Dust;
- Optical Thickness;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Thermal Emission;
- Angular Distribution;
- Line Of Sight;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Symmetry;
- Astrophysics;
- 98.50.Vr;
- 95.30.Jx;
- Radiative transfer;
- scattering;
- ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI;
- COSMIC DUST;
- OPTICAL THICKNESS;
- RADIATIVE TRANSFER;
- THERMAL EMISSION;
- ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION;
- LINE OF SIGHT;
- SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH;
- SYMMETRY