JWST reveals the diversity of nuclear obscuring dust in nearby AGN: nuclear isolation of MIRI/MRS datacubes and continuum spectral fitting
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| author | González-Martín, Omaira Díaz-González, Daniel J. Martínez-Paredes, Mariela Alonso-Herrero, Almudena López-Rodríguez, Enrique García-Lorenzo, Begoña Almeida, Cristina Ramos García-Bernete, Ismael Esparza-Arredondo, Donaji Hoenig, Sebastian F. García-Burillo, Santiago Packham, Chris Levenson, Nancy A. Labiano, Alvaro Pereira-Santaella, Miguel Combes, Francoise Audibert, Anelise Hicks, Erin K. S. Zhang, Lulu Bellocchi, Enrica Davies, Richard I. Muñoz, Laura Hermosa Imanishi, Masatoshi Ricci, Claudio Stalevski, Marko |
| author_facet | González-Martín, Omaira Díaz-González, Daniel J. Martínez-Paredes, Mariela Alonso-Herrero, Almudena López-Rodríguez, Enrique García-Lorenzo, Begoña Almeida, Cristina Ramos García-Bernete, Ismael Esparza-Arredondo, Donaji Hoenig, Sebastian F. García-Burillo, Santiago Packham, Chris Levenson, Nancy A. Labiano, Alvaro Pereira-Santaella, Miguel Combes, Francoise Audibert, Anelise Hicks, Erin K. S. Zhang, Lulu Bellocchi, Enrica Davies, Richard I. Muñoz, Laura Hermosa Imanishi, Masatoshi Ricci, Claudio Stalevski, Marko |
| contents | We investigate the capabilities of the mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to advance our knowledge of AGN dust using the spectral fitting technique on an AGN collection of 21 nearby (z<0.05) AGN (7 type-1 and 14 type-2) observations obtained with the medium resolution spectroscopy (MRS) mode. This collection includes publicly available AGN and data from the collaboration of Galactic Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). We developed a tool named MRSPSFisol that decomposes MRS cubes into point-like and extended contributions. We found statistically good fits for 12 targets with current AGN dust models. The model that provides good fits (chi2/dof<2) for {these 12 targets} assumes a combination of clumpy and smooth distribution of dust in a flare-disk geometry where the dust grain size is a free parameter. Still, two and one AGN statistically prefer the disk+wind and the classical clumpy torus model, respectively. However, the currently available models fail to reproduce 40% of the targets, likely due to the extreme silicate features not well reproduced by the models and signatures of water-ice and aliphatic hydrocarbon absorption features in most targets. New models exploring, for instance, new chemistry, are needed to explain the complexity of AGN dust continuum emission observed by JWST. |
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| spellingShingle | JWST reveals the diversity of nuclear obscuring dust in nearby AGN: nuclear isolation of MIRI/MRS datacubes and continuum spectral fitting González-Martín, Omaira Díaz-González, Daniel J. Martínez-Paredes, Mariela Alonso-Herrero, Almudena López-Rodríguez, Enrique García-Lorenzo, Begoña Almeida, Cristina Ramos García-Bernete, Ismael Esparza-Arredondo, Donaji Hoenig, Sebastian F. García-Burillo, Santiago Packham, Chris Levenson, Nancy A. Labiano, Alvaro Pereira-Santaella, Miguel Combes, Francoise Audibert, Anelise Hicks, Erin K. S. Zhang, Lulu Bellocchi, Enrica Davies, Richard I. Muñoz, Laura Hermosa Imanishi, Masatoshi Ricci, Claudio Stalevski, Marko Astrophysics of Galaxies We investigate the capabilities of the mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to advance our knowledge of AGN dust using the spectral fitting technique on an AGN collection of 21 nearby (z<0.05) AGN (7 type-1 and 14 type-2) observations obtained with the medium resolution spectroscopy (MRS) mode. This collection includes publicly available AGN and data from the collaboration of Galactic Activity, Torus, and Outflow Survey (GATOS). We developed a tool named MRSPSFisol that decomposes MRS cubes into point-like and extended contributions. We found statistically good fits for 12 targets with current AGN dust models. The model that provides good fits (chi2/dof<2) for {these 12 targets} assumes a combination of clumpy and smooth distribution of dust in a flare-disk geometry where the dust grain size is a free parameter. Still, two and one AGN statistically prefer the disk+wind and the classical clumpy torus model, respectively. However, the currently available models fail to reproduce 40% of the targets, likely due to the extreme silicate features not well reproduced by the models and signatures of water-ice and aliphatic hydrocarbon absorption features in most targets. New models exploring, for instance, new chemistry, are needed to explain the complexity of AGN dust continuum emission observed by JWST. |
| title | JWST reveals the diversity of nuclear obscuring dust in nearby AGN: nuclear isolation of MIRI/MRS datacubes and continuum spectral fitting |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01103 |