Collisions among clouds inside dusty tori in active galactic nuclei: Observational consequences

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	Collisions among clouds inside dusty tori in active galactic nuclei: Observational consequences
	Wang JM(王建民); Wang, JM
刊名	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
	2004
卷号	614 期号:1 页码:L21-L24
关键词	galaxies : individual (NGC 1068) galaxies : nuclei
通讯作者	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst High Energy Phys, High Energy Astrophys Lab, Beijing 100039, Peoples R China
英文摘要	A geometrically thick dusty torus in NGC 1068 has been unambiguously resolved by an infrared interferometry telescope. This implies that clouds composing the dusty torus are undergoing supersonic collisions with each other. We show that the collisions form strong nonrelativistic shocks, which accelerate populations of relativistic electrons. The torus reprocesses emission from the accretion disk into an infrared band. We show that the energy density of the infrared photons inside the torus is much higher than that of the magnetic field in the clouds, and the seed photons of inverse Compton scattering are mainly from the infrared. The maximum energy of the relativistic electrons can reach a Lorentz factor of 10(5). We calculate the spectrum of the synchrotron and inverse Compton scattering radiation from the electrons in the torus. The relativistic electrons in the torus radiate non-thermal emission from radio to gamma-ray, which isotropically diffuses in the region of the torus. We find that the most prominent character is a peak at similar to0.5-1 GeV. We apply this model to NGC 1068 and find that the observed radio emission from the core component S-1 can be explained by the synchrotron emission from the relativistic electrons. We predict that there is gamma-ray emission with a luminosity of ergs 10(40) s(-1) peaking at similar to1 GeV from 40 10 the torus, which could be detected by the Gamma-Ray Large-Array Space Telescope in the future. This will provide a new clue to understanding the physics in the torus. The nonthermal radiation from the dusty torus may explain the radio emission from Seyfert galaxies. The cosmological implications of the nonthermal emission to the gamma-ray background radiation are also discussed.
学科主题	Astronomy & Astrophysics
类目[WOS]	Astronomy & Astrophysics
研究领域[WOS]	Astronomy & Astrophysics
原文出处	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000224367100006
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihep.ac.cn/handle/311005/240261]
专题	高能物理研究所_粒子天体物理中心
作者单位	中国科学院高能物理研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang JM,Wang, JM. Collisions among clouds inside dusty tori in active galactic nuclei: Observational consequences[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2004,614(1):L21-L24.
APA	王建民,&Wang, JM.(2004).Collisions among clouds inside dusty tori in active galactic nuclei: Observational consequences.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,614(1),L21-L24.
MLA	王建民,et al."Collisions among clouds inside dusty tori in active galactic nuclei: Observational consequences".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 614.1(2004):L21-L24.