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29 March 2024
 
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AGN dust tori at low and high luminosities
Sebastian F. Hoenig ; Thomas Beckert ;
Date 2 Jul 2007
AbstractA cornerstone of AGN unification schemes is the presence of an optically and geometrically thick dust torus. It provides the obscuration to explain the difference between type 1 and type 2 AGN. We investigate the influence of the dust distribution on the Eddington limit of the torus. For smooth dust distributions, the Eddingtion limit on the dust alone is 5 orders of magnitudes below the limit for electron scattering in a fully ionized plasma, while a clumpy dust torus has an Eddington limit slightly larger than the classical one. We study the behaviour of a clumpy torus at low and high AGN luminosities. For low luminosities of the order of ~10^42 erg/s, the torus changes its characteristics and obscuration becomes insufficient. In the high luminosity regime, the clumpy torus can show a behaviour which is consistent with the "receding torus" picture. The derived luminosity-dependent fraction of type-2-objects agrees with recent observational results. Moreover, the luminosity-dependent covering factor in a clumpy torus may explain the presence of broad-line AGN with high column densities in X-rays.
Source arXiv, arxiv.0707.0162
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