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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
Abstract
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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