期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 801, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/801/2/127
关键词
galaxies: active; galaxies: individual (NGC 6418); galaxies: nuclei; galaxies: Seyfert
资金
- JPL/Caltech [GO-80120]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
- University of Arizona
- Brazilian Participation Group
- Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of Florida
- French Participation Group
- German Participation Group
- Harvard University
- Instituto de Astroffsica de Canarias
- Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- New Mexico State University
- New York University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- Spanish Participation Group
- University of Tokyo
- University of Utah
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Yale University
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
- NSF [AST-1008882]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26887044] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/M001296/1, ST/J001589/1, ST/M003035/1, ST/M000095/1, ST/K001515/1, ST/J001651/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1008882] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- STFC [ST/M000095/1, ST/J001589/1, ST/M001296/1, ST/M003035/1, ST/K001515/1, ST/J001651/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We present results from a 15 month campaign of high-cadence (similar to 3 days) mid-infrared Spitzer and optical (B and V) monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 6418, with the objective of determining the characteristic size of the dusty torus in this active galactic nucleus (AGN). We find that the 3.6 and 4.5 pm flux variations lag behind those of the optical continuum by 37.2(-2.2)(+2.4) days and 47.1(-3.1)(+3.1) days, respectively. We report a cross-correlation time lag between the 4.5 and 3.6 mu m flux of 13.9(-0.1)(+0.5) days. The lags indicate that the dust emitting at 3.6 and 4.5 mu m is located at a distance approximate to 1 light-month approximate to(0.03 pc) from the source of the AGN UV optical continuum. The reverberation radii are consistent with the inferred lower limit to the sublimation radius for pure graphite grains at 1800 K, but smaller by a factor of similar to 2 than the corresponding lower limit for silicate grains; this is similar to what has been found for near-infrared (K-band) lags in other AGNs. The 3.6 and 4.5 mu m reverberation radii fall above the K-band T proportional to L-0.5 size luminosity relationship by factors less than or similar to 2.7 and less than or similar to 3.4, respectively, while the 4.5 mu m reverberation radius is only 27% larger than the 3.6 mu m radius. This is broadly consistent with clumpy torus models, in which individual optically thick clouds emit strongly over a broad wavelength range.
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