NIRDust: Near Infrared Dust finder for Type2 AGN K-band spectra
Abstract
NIRDust uses K-band (2.2 micrometers) spectra to measure the temperature of the dust heated by an Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) accretion disk. The package provides several functionalities to pre-process spectra and fit the hot dust component of a AGN K-band spectrum with a blackbody function. NIRDust needs a minimum of two spectra to run: a target spectrum, where the dust temperature will be estimated, and a reference spectrum, where the emission is considered to be purely stellar. The reference spectrum will be used by NIRDust to model the stellar emission from the target spectrum.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- October 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022ascl.soft10003G
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- Software