Bibcode
                                    
                            Ramos Almeida, C.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Levenson, N. A.; Asensio Ramos, A.; Rodríguez Espinosa, J. M.; González-Martín, O.; Packham, C.; Martínez, M.
    Bibliographical reference
                                    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 439, Issue 4, p.3847-3859
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                        2014
            
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                            Description
                                    We present nuclear spectral energy distributions (SEDs) from 1 to 18
μm of a small sample of nearby, nearly face-on and undisturbed
Seyfert galaxies without prominent nuclear dust lanes. These nuclear
SEDs probe the central ˜35 pc of the galaxies, on average, and
include photometric and spectroscopic infrared (IR) data. We use these
SEDs, the clumpy torus models of Nenkova et al. and a Bayesian approach
to study the sensitivity of different IR wavelengths to the torus
parameters. We find that high angular resolution 8-13 μm spectroscopy
alone reliably constrains the number of clumps and their optical depth
(N0 and τV). On the other hand, we need a
combination of mid- and near-IR subarcsecond resolution photometry to
constrain torus width and inclination, as well as the radial
distribution of the clouds (σ, i and q). For flat radial profiles
(q = 0, 1), it is possible to constrain the extent of the
mid-IR-emitting dust within the torus (Y) when N-band spectroscopy is
available, in addition to near-IR photometry. Finally, by fitting
different combinations of average and individual Seyfert 1 and Seyfert 2
data, we find that, in general, for undisturbed, nearly face-on Seyferts
without prominent nuclear dust lanes, the minimum combination of data
necessary to reliably constrain all the torus parameters is J+K+M-band
photometry + N-band spectroscopy.
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