Dust Reverberation Mapping in Distant Quasars from Optical and Mid-infrared Imaging Surveys
The size of the dust torus in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their high-luminosity counterparts, quasars, can be inferred from the time delay between UV/optical accretion disk continuum variability and the response in the mid-infrared (MIR) torus emission. This dust reverberation mapping (RM) technique has been successfully applied to ∼70 z ≲ 0
Yang, Qian et al.
Fecha de publicación:
9
2020