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Modeling optical and UV polarization of AGNs
Marin, F. ; Goosmann, R. W. ; Gaskell, C. M.
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2015-05, Vol.577
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EDP Sciences
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Título:
Modeling optical and UV polarization of AGNs
Autor:
Marin, F.
;
Goosmann, R. W.
;
Gaskell, C. M.
Assuntos:
galaxies: active
;
galaxies: Seyfert
;
polarization
;
radiative transfer
;
scattering
É parte de:
Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin), 2015-05, Vol.577
Notas:
bibcode:2015A%26A...577A..66M
istex:E84FB3C611318DE3DB4E93F6F7A0E02EB05C983E
ark:/67375/80W-219K6GV0-P
publisher-ID:aa25628-15
dkey:10.1051/0004-6361/201525628
e-mail: frederic.marin@asu.cas.cz
Descrição:
Context. A growing body of evidence suggests that some, if not all, scattering regions of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are clumpy. The inner AGN components cannot be spatially resolved with current instruments and must be studied by numerical simulations of observed spectroscopy and polarization data. Aims. We run radiative transfer models in the optical/UV for a variety of AGN reprocessing regions with different distributions of clumpy scattering media. We obtain geometry-sensitive polarization spectra and images to improve our previous AGN models and their comparison with the observations. Methods. We use the latest public version 1.2 of the Monte Carlo code stokes presented in the first two papers of this series to model AGN reprocessing regions of increasing morphological complexity. We replace previously uniform-density media with up to thousands of constant-density clumps. We couple a continuum source to fragmented equatorial scattering regions, polar outflows, and toroidal obscuring dust regions and investigate a wide range of geometries. We also consider different levels of fragmentation in each scattering region to evaluate the importance of fragmentation for the net polarization of the AGN. Results. In comparison with uniform-density models, equatorial distributions of gas and dust clouds result in grayer spectra and show a decrease in the net polarization percentage at all lines of sight. The resulting polarization position angle depends on the morphology of the clumpy structure, with extended tori favoring parallel polarization while compact tori produce orthogonal polarization position angles. In the case of polar scattering regions, fragmentation increases the net polarization unless the cloud filling factor is small. A complete AGN model constructed from the individual, fragmented regions can produce low polarization percentages (<2%), with a parallel polarization angle for observer inclinations up to 70° for a torus half opening angle of 60°. For type-2 viewing angles the polarization switches to perpendicular and rises to ~50%. Conclusions. Our modeling shows that the introduction of fragmented dusty tori significantly alters the resulting net polarization of an AGN. Comparison of our models to polarization observations of large AGN samples greatly favors geometrically compact clumpy tori over extended ones.
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EDP Sciences
Idioma:
Inglês
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