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The Starburst-AGN Connection: 3-D Structure of the Massive Gas Disk around the Nucleus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

Keiichi Wada
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory, Mitaka, 181-8588, Japan
Colin A. Norman
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Abstract

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The structure of obscuring matter in the environment of active galactic nuclei with associated nuclear starbursts is investigated using 3-D hydrodynamical simulations, in which the multi-phase inhomogeneous interstellar matter and its interaction with the supernovae are consistently followed. A globally stable, torus-like, but highly inhomogeneous and turbulent structure is found. To achieve the high column densities as suggested by observations of some Seyfert 2 galaxies with nuclear starbursts, the viewing angle should be larger than about 70° from the pole-on for a 108M massive black hole. We propose that nuclear starbursts and the mass of the black hole that determines the geometry of the obscuring torus.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2003 

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