Dusty Structure Around Type-I Active Galactic Nuclei: Clumpy Torus Narrow Line Region and Near-Nucleus Hot Dust

Understand

We fitted Spitzer/IRS ~2-35 um spectra of 26 luminous QSOs in attempt to define the main emission components.

• Our model has three major components: a clumpy torus, dusty narrow line region (NLR) clouds and a blackbody-like dust.
• The models utilize the clumpy torus of Nenkova et al.
• (2008) and are the first to allow its consistent check in type-I AGNs.