Elusive Accretion Discs in Low Luminosity AGN

Authors
  • J.A. Fernández-Ontiveros
  • M.A. Prieto Escudero
  • S. Markoff
  • L. Reb
  • D. Espada
  • O. González-Martín
Publication date 23-06-2017
Journal Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union
Volume | Issue number 12 | S324
Pages (from-to) 192-195
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API)
Abstract Low luminosity AGN (LLAGN) represent the vast majority of the AGN population in the near universe. However, they show intrinsic differences when compared to the Unified Model scenario, i.e. a lack of both the big blue bump and the IR bump in their spectral energy distribution (SED), which are the signatures of an accretion disk and a torus, respectively. In this work we present SED for a sample of six LLAGN in the nearby Universe obtained from subarcsec resolution observations. The nature of the IR continuum emission is discussed in the context of non-thermal radiation powered by compact jets.
Document type Article
Note New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics : proceedings IAU Symposium no. 324, 2016, ed. by Andreja Gomboc.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921317002265
Other links http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017IAUS..324..192F
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