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Torus And Active Galactic Nucleus Properties Of Nearby Seyfert Galaxies: Results From Fitting Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions And Spectroscopy, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Almeida Cristina Ramos, Rachel Mason, Ramos Andrés Asensio, Patrick F. Roche, Nancy A. Levenson, Moshe Elitzur, Christopher Packham, José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Stuart Young, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Ana M. Pérez-García Jul 2011

Torus And Active Galactic Nucleus Properties Of Nearby Seyfert Galaxies: Results From Fitting Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions And Spectroscopy, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, Almeida Cristina Ramos, Rachel Mason, Ramos Andrés Asensio, Patrick F. Roche, Nancy A. Levenson, Moshe Elitzur, Christopher Packham, José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, Stuart Young, Tanio Díaz-Santos, Ana M. Pérez-García

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

We used the CLUMPY torus models and a Bayesian approach to fit the infrared spectral energy distributions and ground-based high angular resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy of 13 nearby Seyfert galaxies. This allowed us to put tight constraints on torus model parameters such as the viewing angle i, the radial thickness of the torus Y, the angular size of the cloud distribution σtorus, and the average number of clouds along radial equatorial rays N0. We found that the viewing angle i is not the only parameter controlling the classification of a galaxy into type 1 or …


Dynamical Masses Of Early-Type Galaxies: A Comparison To Lensing Results And Implications For The Stellar Initial Mass Function And The Distribution Of Dark Matter, J. Thomas, R. P. Saglia, R. Bender, D. Thomas, K. Gebhardt, J. Magorrian, E. M. Corsini, G. Wegner, S. Seitz Jul 2011

Dynamical Masses Of Early-Type Galaxies: A Comparison To Lensing Results And Implications For The Stellar Initial Mass Function And The Distribution Of Dark Matter, J. Thomas, R. P. Saglia, R. Bender, D. Thomas, K. Gebhardt, J. Magorrian, E. M. Corsini, G. Wegner, S. Seitz

Dartmouth Scholarship

This work aims to study the distribution of the luminous and dark matter in Coma early-type galaxies. Dynamical masses obtained under the assumption that mass follows light do not match with the masses of strong gravitational lens systems of similar velocity dispersions. Instead, dynamical fits with dark matter haloes are in good agreement with lensing results. We derive mass-to-light ratios of the stellar populations from Lick absorption line indices, reproducing well the observed galaxy colours. Even in dynamical models with dark matter haloes the amount of mass that follows the light increases more rapidly with the galaxy velocity dispersion than …