New active galactic nuclei science cases with interferometry

Experimental Astronomy - Tập 46 - Trang 413-419 - 2018
Sebastian F. Hönig1, Almudena Alonso Herrero2, Poshak Gandhi1, Makoto Kishimoto3, Jörg-Uwe Pott4, Cristina Ramos Almeida5, Jean Surdej6, Konrad R. W. Tristram7
1Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, England
2Centro de Astrobiología (CAB, CSIC-INTA), ESAC Campus, Madrid, Spain
3Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
4Max-Planck Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
5Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), Tenerife, Spain
6Space sciences, Technologies, and Astrophysics Research (STAR) Institute, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
7European Southern Observatory, Santiago 19, Chile

Tóm tắt

Infrared (IR) interferometry has made widely recognised contributions to the way we look at the dusty environment of supermassive black holes on parsec scales. It finally provided direct evidence for orientation-dependent unification of active galaxies, however it also showed that the classical “torus” picture is oversimplified. New scientific opportunities for AGN have been suggested, and will soon be carried out, focusing on the dynamical aspects of spectrally and spatially resolved interferometry, as well as the potential to employ interferometry for cosmology. This will open interferometry to new scientific communities.

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