The dust-gas AGN torus as constrained from X-ray and mid-infrared observations

Understand

In the last decades, several multiwavelength studies have been dedicated to exploring the properties of the obscuring material in active galactic nuclei (AGN).

• Various models have been developed to describe the structure and distribution of this material and constrain its physical and geometrical parameters through spectral fitting techniques.
• However, questions, including how the torus mid-infrared (mid-IR) and X-ray emission are related remain unanswered.
• In this work, we study whether the dust continuum at mid-IR and gas reflection at X-rays have the same distribution in a sample of AGN.