Dusty plasma in active galactic nuclei

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Authors

CZERNY Bozena ZAJAČEK Michal NADDAF Mohammad-Hassan SNIEGOWSKA Marzena PANDA Swayamtrupta ROZANSKA Agata ADHIKARI Tek P. PANDEY Ashwani JAISWAL Vikram Kumar KARAS Vladimír BORKAR Abhijeet MARTÍNEZ-ALDAMA Mary Loli PRINCE Raj

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source The European Physical Journal D
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00630-8
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-023-00630-8
Keywords galaxies: active; quasars: emission lines; supermassive black holes; radiative transfer
Description For many years we have known that dust in the form of a dusty-molecular torus is responsible for the obscuration in active galactic nuclei (AGN) at large viewing angles and, thus, for the widely used phenomenological classification of AGN. Recently, we gained new observational and theoretical insights into the geometry of the torus region and the role of dust in the dynamics of emerging outflows and failed winds. We will briefly touch on all these aspects and provide a more detailed update of our dust-based model (FRADO—Failed Radiatively Accelerated Dusty Outflow) capable of explaining the processes of formation of Balmer lines in AGN.
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