Dusty warm absorbers: The case of Iras 13349+2438

Author(s)
Stefanie Komossa, Dieter Breitschwerdt
Abstract

Warm absorbers are an important new probe of the central region of active galaxies (AGN). Observing and modeling this component provides a wealth of information on the nature of the warm absorber itself, its relation to other components of the active nucleus, and the intrinsic AGN X-ray spectral shape. We briefly review the general properties of dusty warm gas. For the first time, we then apply such a model to the IR loud quasar IRAS 13349+2438. It was the first to be suggested to host a dusty warm absorber (Brandt et al. 1996), but has not yet been modeled as such.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
External organisation(s)
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Journal
Astrophysics and Space Science
Volume
272
Pages
299-302
No. of pages
4
ISSN
0004-640X
Publication date
2000
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103003 Astronomy
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/c5758a94-b2ad-4a85-9ead-7fcf801ffc21