Cosmic Dust: origin, applications & implications

Dust in Active Galactic Nuclei: A close look at the torus and its surroundings

15 Jun 2018, 09:00

45m

Main Auditorium (Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen)

Review Talk Dust as a tool Dust in AGN

Speaker

Prof. Almudena Alonso-Herrero (INTA-CSIC)

Description

In this talk I will review our current knowledge of the torus of dust and molecular gas in AGN and its close surroundings. I will summarize recent results on the geometry of the torus in nearby AGN, the connection to inflows and outflows, and the properties of AGN dust. In the last part of the talk I will touch upon the properties of the torus in distant AGN and in particular the dust covering factors and the torus evolution.

Presentation materials

DustAGN.pdf