| Name: | ARYA SUDHAKARAN |
| Affiliation: | Manipal Centre for Natural Science, Manipal Academy of Higher Education |
| Conference ID : | ASI2024_586 |
| Title : | DUST RADIATIVE TRANSFER IN AGN TORI USING SKIRT CODE |
| Authors : | Arya Sudhakaran 1, P Shalima 1, Debbijoy Bhattacharya 1 |
| Authors Affiliation: | 1 Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Centre of Excellence, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka - 576104, India |
| Mode of Presentation: | Poster |
| Abstract Category : | Galaxies and Cosmology |
| Abstract : | Galaxies that host extremely bright centers are called “Active galaxies”, and such luminous cores of Active galaxies are called Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The central supermassive black hole, accretion disk and the broad line region of an AGN are surrounded by a dusty torus whose structure, geometry, orientation, compositions, etc. remain ill-understood. Due to the complexity of multiple scattering events at work, instead of individual photon tracking, radiative transfer codes are required for modelling the torus emission. Stellar Kinematics Including Radiative Transfer (SKIRT) is a three-dimensional radiative transfer open source code developed by Baes and Camps (2015) that is used to trace the effects of scattering, absorption and emission by dust and provides a platform to carry out 3D modelling of the torus using a range of parameters such as inner and outer radius of the torus, optical depth, opening angle, inclination angles etc. We aim to constrain various torus parameters for a set of AGNs utilizing multi-waveband observations and associated modelling with SKIRT. Preliminary results of our study will be presented here. |
