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Obscuring Material around Seyfert Nuclei with Starbursts | | Keiichi Wada
; Colin A. Norman
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3 Dec 2001 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | The structure of obscuring matter in the environment of active galactic nuclei with associated nuclear starbursts is investigated using 3-D hydrodynamical simulations. Simple analytical estimates suggest that the obscuring matter with energy feedback from supernovae has a torus-like structure with a radius of several tens of parsecs and a scale height of about 10 pc. These estimates are confirmed by the fully non-linear numerical simulations, in which the multi-phase inhomogeneous interstellar matter and its interaction with the supernovae are consistently followed. The globally stable, torus-like structure is highly inhomogeneous and turbulent. To achieve the high column densities (> 10^{24} cm^{-2}) as suggested by observations of some Seyfert 2 galaxies with nuclear starbursts, the viewing angle should be larger than about 70 degree from the pole-on for a 10^8 solar mass massive black hole. Due to the inhomogeneous internal structure of the torus, the observed column density is sensitive to the line-of-sight, and it fluctuates by a factor of order 100. The covering fraction for N > 10^{23} cm^{-2} is about 0.4. The average accretion rate toward R < 1 pc is 0.4 solar mass/yr, which is boosted to twice that in the model without the energy feedback. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0201035 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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