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2011MNRAS.417L..46R - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 417, L46-L50 (2011/October-2)

Resolving the nuclear dust distribution of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081.

RAMOS ALMEIDA C., SANCHEZ-PORTAL M., PEREZ GARCIA A.M., ACOSTA-PULIDO J.A., CASTILLO M., ASENSIO RAMOS A., GONZALEZ-SERRANO J.I., ALONSO-HERRERO A., RODRIGUEZ ESPINOSA J.M., HATZIMINAOGLOU E., COIA D., VALTCHANOV I., POVIC M., ESQUEJ P., PACKHAM C. and ALTIERI B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report far-infrared (FIR) imaging of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 3081 in the range 70–500 µm, obtained with an unprecedented angular resolution, using the Herschel Space Observatory instruments PACS and SPIRE. The 11 kpc (∼70 arcsec) diameter star-forming ring of the galaxy appears resolved up to 250 µm. We extracted IR (1.6–500 µm) nuclear fluxes, that is active nucleus-dominated fluxes, and fitted them with clumpy torus models, which successfully reproduce the FIR emission with small torus sizes. Adding the FIR data to the near- and mid-IR spectral energy distribution (SED) results in a torus radial extent of Ro= 4+2_- 1_pc, as well as in a flat radial distribution of the clouds (i.e. the q parameter). At wavelengths beyond 200 µm, cold dust emission at T= 28±1 K from the circumnuclear star-forming ring of 2.3 kpc (∼15 arcsec) in diameter starts making a contribution to the nuclear emission. The dust in the outer parts of the galaxy is heated by the interstellar radiation field (19±3 K).

Abstract Copyright: 2011 The Authors. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society2011 RAS

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: nuclei - galaxies: Seyfert - infrared: galaxies - galaxies: individual: NGC 3081

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