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  • Resolving the Hot Dust Disk...
    Leftley, James H.; Tristram, Konrad R. W.; Hönig, Sebastian F.; Asmus, Daniel; Kishimoto, Makoto; Gandhi, Poshak

    The Astrophysical journal, 05/2021, Letnik: 912, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Abstract Infrared interferometry has led to a paradigm shift in our understanding of the dusty structure in the central parsecs of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The dust is now thought to comprise a hot (∼1000 K) equatorial disk, some of which is blown into a cooler (∼300 K) polar dusty wind by radiation pressure. In this paper, we utilize the new near-IR interferometer GRAVITY on the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) to study a Type 1.2 AGNs hosted in the nearby Seyfert galaxy ESO 323-G77. By modeling the squared visibility and closure phase, we find that the hot dust is equatorially extended, consistent with the idea of a disk, and shows signs of asymmetry in the same direction. Furthermore, the data is fully consistent with the hot dust size determined by K -band reverberation mapping as well as the predicted size from a CAT3D-WIND model created in previous work using the spectral energy distribution of ESO 323-G77 and observations in the mid-IR from VLTI/MID-infrared Interferometric instrument).