Speaker
Prof.
Susanne Aalto
(Chalmers University of Technology)
Description
In this talk I will discuss our current view of dust as a tracer of galaxy properties – from dust in extended, star forming disks and winds – to properties of dusty nuclei and compact, collimated nuclear outflows . I will show optical studies of dust in absorption - and dust in emission at long wavelengths (from infrared to mm/submm). Finally, I will present new results on very optically thick dust in the inner regions of galaxies that hide extreme, hitherto unknown, nuclear activity. I will discuss the nature of the buried activity and how we can study the properties of the dust in these deeply veiled regions.
Primary author
Prof.
Susanne Aalto
(Chalmers University of Technology)
