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Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus. Moshe Elitzur University of Kentucky. Unification Scheme for AGN. T oroidal O bscuration R equired by U nification S chemes. M ~ 10 6 – 10 10 M  R s ~ 10 11 – 10 15 cm. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus

Moshe Elitzur University of Kentucky

Unification Scheme for AGN

M ~ 106 ndash 1010 M

Rs ~ 1011 ndash 1015

cm

Toroidal

Obscuration

Required by

Unification

SchemesObscuring matter mdash optically thick dusty clouds Krolik amp

Begelman lsquo88

Torus Properties mdash Obscuration

Equatorial V gt~ 30 40

NH gt~ 1023 cm-2

f2 mdash fraction of obscured sources = N2(N1 + N2)

Seyferts f2 = 70 Schmitt+ lsquo01

f2 = 50 Hao+ lsquo05

f2 = sin = 05 mdash 07

asymp 30˚ mdash 45˚

HRo ~ 1

H

Torus Direct Evidence

NGC 1068

D = 144 Mpc

01rdquo = 72 pc

Weigelt+ 04

bispectrum specle interferometry

Jaffe+ 04

VLTI 8-13 m

Torus Size mdash Observations

NGC1068 2m imaging ndash R ~ 1 pc (Weigelt+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 2 pc (Jaffe+ 04)

Cen A 8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 03 pc ( Meisenheimer+

07)

Circinus 2m ndash R ~ 1 pc (Prieto+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 1 pc (Tristram+ 08)

8 amp 18m ndash R lt 2 pc (Packham+ 05)

NGC1097 amp NGC5506 2m ndash R lt 5 pc (Prieto+ 04)

All observations are consistent with RoutRd no larger than ~2030 and perhaps even

only ~510

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 2: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Unification Scheme for AGN

M ~ 106 ndash 1010 M

Rs ~ 1011 ndash 1015

cm

Toroidal

Obscuration

Required by

Unification

SchemesObscuring matter mdash optically thick dusty clouds Krolik amp

Begelman lsquo88

Torus Properties mdash Obscuration

Equatorial V gt~ 30 40

NH gt~ 1023 cm-2

f2 mdash fraction of obscured sources = N2(N1 + N2)

Seyferts f2 = 70 Schmitt+ lsquo01

f2 = 50 Hao+ lsquo05

f2 = sin = 05 mdash 07

asymp 30˚ mdash 45˚

HRo ~ 1

H

Torus Direct Evidence

NGC 1068

D = 144 Mpc

01rdquo = 72 pc

Weigelt+ 04

bispectrum specle interferometry

Jaffe+ 04

VLTI 8-13 m

Torus Size mdash Observations

NGC1068 2m imaging ndash R ~ 1 pc (Weigelt+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 2 pc (Jaffe+ 04)

Cen A 8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 03 pc ( Meisenheimer+

07)

Circinus 2m ndash R ~ 1 pc (Prieto+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 1 pc (Tristram+ 08)

8 amp 18m ndash R lt 2 pc (Packham+ 05)

NGC1097 amp NGC5506 2m ndash R lt 5 pc (Prieto+ 04)

All observations are consistent with RoutRd no larger than ~2030 and perhaps even

only ~510

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 3: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Torus Properties mdash Obscuration

Equatorial V gt~ 30 40

NH gt~ 1023 cm-2

f2 mdash fraction of obscured sources = N2(N1 + N2)

Seyferts f2 = 70 Schmitt+ lsquo01

f2 = 50 Hao+ lsquo05

f2 = sin = 05 mdash 07

asymp 30˚ mdash 45˚

HRo ~ 1

H

Torus Direct Evidence

NGC 1068

D = 144 Mpc

01rdquo = 72 pc

Weigelt+ 04

bispectrum specle interferometry

Jaffe+ 04

VLTI 8-13 m

Torus Size mdash Observations

NGC1068 2m imaging ndash R ~ 1 pc (Weigelt+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 2 pc (Jaffe+ 04)

Cen A 8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 03 pc ( Meisenheimer+

07)

Circinus 2m ndash R ~ 1 pc (Prieto+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 1 pc (Tristram+ 08)

8 amp 18m ndash R lt 2 pc (Packham+ 05)

NGC1097 amp NGC5506 2m ndash R lt 5 pc (Prieto+ 04)

All observations are consistent with RoutRd no larger than ~2030 and perhaps even

only ~510

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 4: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Torus Direct Evidence

NGC 1068

D = 144 Mpc

01rdquo = 72 pc

Weigelt+ 04

bispectrum specle interferometry

Jaffe+ 04

VLTI 8-13 m

Torus Size mdash Observations

NGC1068 2m imaging ndash R ~ 1 pc (Weigelt+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 2 pc (Jaffe+ 04)

Cen A 8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 03 pc ( Meisenheimer+

07)

Circinus 2m ndash R ~ 1 pc (Prieto+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 1 pc (Tristram+ 08)

8 amp 18m ndash R lt 2 pc (Packham+ 05)

NGC1097 amp NGC5506 2m ndash R lt 5 pc (Prieto+ 04)

All observations are consistent with RoutRd no larger than ~2030 and perhaps even

only ~510

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 5: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

NGC 1068

D = 144 Mpc

01rdquo = 72 pc

Weigelt+ 04

bispectrum specle interferometry

Jaffe+ 04

VLTI 8-13 m

Torus Size mdash Observations

NGC1068 2m imaging ndash R ~ 1 pc (Weigelt+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 2 pc (Jaffe+ 04)

Cen A 8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 03 pc ( Meisenheimer+

07)

Circinus 2m ndash R ~ 1 pc (Prieto+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 1 pc (Tristram+ 08)

8 amp 18m ndash R lt 2 pc (Packham+ 05)

NGC1097 amp NGC5506 2m ndash R lt 5 pc (Prieto+ 04)

All observations are consistent with RoutRd no larger than ~2030 and perhaps even

only ~510

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 6: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Torus Size mdash Observations

NGC1068 2m imaging ndash R ~ 1 pc (Weigelt+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 2 pc (Jaffe+ 04)

Cen A 8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 03 pc ( Meisenheimer+

07)

Circinus 2m ndash R ~ 1 pc (Prieto+ 04)

8―13m VLTI ndash R ~ 1 pc (Tristram+ 08)

8 amp 18m ndash R lt 2 pc (Packham+ 05)

NGC1097 amp NGC5506 2m ndash R lt 5 pc (Prieto+ 04)

All observations are consistent with RoutRd no larger than ~2030 and perhaps even

only ~510

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 7: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Torus orientation amp the host galaxy

AGN axis (jet) randomly oriented with respect to

bull galactic disk in Syefert galaxies (Kinney et al 00)

bull nuclear dust disk in radio galaxies (Schmitt et al 02)

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 8: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

NGC 1068

Galaxy ~ face on

Torus ~ edge on (le5ordm)bull H2O masers

Gallimore+ 01

bull NLR kinematics Crenshaw+ 00

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 9: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations

Galliano et al rsquo03 HR ~ 015

20 pc

140 pc

bull Molecular disk outside ldquothe torusrdquo

bull Disk amp torus roughly aligned

15ordm

Schinerer+ 00 at R ~ 70 pc H ~ 10 pc HR ~

015

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 10: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations

Muller Sanchez+ 08

bull Infall at ~ 10 pc no rotation

bull Torus size lt~ 10 pc

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 11: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum

Gallimore+

04

04 pc

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 12: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

What is the Torus

Smooth continuation of the BLR

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 13: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Risaliti Elvis amp Nicastro 02

Smooth distribution of dusty and dust-free (BLR) clouds

X-ray Obscuration

Dusty clouds absorb both UVoptical and X-rays

Dust-free clouds absorb only X-rays

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 14: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Broad Emission Line

NIR(K-band)

bull Broad-emission line lags for objects that also have infrared lags bull Including Hi amp Lo ionization lines)

(nucleus)

Lag Times ― BLR and near-IRSuganuma et al 06

BLR is dust bound (Netzer amp Laor 93)

No correlation with M

( luminosity)

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 15: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Rd

r lt Rd mdash dust free clouds Broad Lines Region X-ray Obscuration Region

BLRXOR

r gt Rd mdash dusty clouds Toroidal Obscuration Region

TOR

TOR = Torus

The Dust-Sublimation Transition

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 16: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Everett amp Konigl lsquo00

Bottorff+ 97

The Disk Wind Paradigm

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 17: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Grand Unification Theory

masers

Emmering Blandford amp Shlosman 92

BLRXOR

Broad Lines Region

X-ray Obscuration

Region

WA

Warm Absorber

TOR

Toroidal Obscuration

Region

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 18: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Clumpy Torus Modeling

N0 = 5 ndash 10 clouds

= 30deg ndash 60deg

V = 30 ndash 120

q = 1 ndash 2

Rd = 04Lfrac1245 pc Ro ge 5 Rd

Standard ISM dust works fine

N N0 exp(-22)rq

Nenkova et al lsquo02 lsquo08

s

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 19: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow

IR modeling

v ~ 30 ndash 120 NH ~ 1022 ndash 1023 cm-2

n gt 107 M7 rpc3 cm-3

Rc lt 1016 NH23 rpc3 M7 cm

Mc lt 710-3 NH23 Rc162 M

B ~ 15 1kms n712 mG

Elitzur amp Shlosman 06

Resistance to tidal shearing

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 20: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Circinus Water Masers

Greenhill+ 03

02 pc

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 21: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Circinus VLTI Imaging

Tristram+ 07

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 22: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Geometry

Clouds rise and expand

Column density decreases

Toroidal structure for both BLR XOR and

TOR

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 23: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

TOR Mass Outflow Rate

Torus should disappear at small LLEdd

THdd

TORout N)R(vRM

2TORacc

2BHacc cMcML

v(Rd) vK(Rd) (MbullRd)frac12 (LEddLfrac12)frac12

TH

21Edd

41TORacc

TORout N

LL

LM

M

Rd Lfrac12

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 24: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities

Nucleus visible in FR I radio galaxies (Chiaberge+

99)

hellip and LINERs too (Maoz+ 05)

LINER 1 amp 2 UV colors similar (AV lt~ 1)

No torus dust emission in M87 (Whysong amp

Antonucci 04 Perlman+ 07)

No torus dust emission in FR I and ~ half of FR II

(van der Wolk+ 08)

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 25: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

If only TOR is removed all low-luminosity AGN become

type 1HOWEVER

Both type 1 and type 2 LINERs do exist

(Maoz et al 05)

ldquotruerdquo type 2 AGN exist at L lt 1042 erg

s-1 (Panessa amp Bassani 02 Laor 03)

THEREFORE

BLR must disappear at some lower L

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 26: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Ho 08 BLR disappears at LLAGN

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 27: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

BLR TOR

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 28: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

R = LradLopt = LLEdd

Radio-loudness Sikora+ lsquo07

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 29: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Wind diminishes mdash mass outflow directed to jets ()

Ho lsquo02 Sikora et al lsquo07 Radio loudness (LradLopt) varies inversely with Macc

Similar effect in X-ray binaries

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 30: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Accre

tion R

ate

(LL

Edd)

Radio

Lo

ud

ness

Full Unification Scheme

both type 1 amp 2

molecular outflow extinguished

Torus disappears type 1 only

atomic outflow extinguished

BLR disappears ldquotruerdquo type 2

High

High

Low

Low

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 31: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

TOR Energy Outflow Rate

Negligible in the energy budget

13

36

T23H

2145

35w sergvNL107L I

dAvnvML cc2cc2

1w

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation
Page 32: Disk-outflow Connection and the  Molecular Dusty Torus

Final Speculation

With ~ 01 the required accretion rate is

Macc ~ 01 L45 M yr-1

The AGN phase lasts ~ 107 108 yrs

Overall accreted mass ~ 106 107 L45 M

Is the whole Seyfert phenomenon the accretion of

just a single GMC

Are QSO triggered differently (mergers)

  • Disk-outflow Connection and the Molecular Dusty Torus
  • Unification Scheme for AGN
  • Torus Properties mdash Obscuration
  • Slide 4
  • Slide 5
  • Torus Size mdash Observations
  • Torus orientation amp the host galaxy
  • NGC 1068
  • NGC 1068 CO amp H2 observations
  • NGC 1068 H2 SINFONI observations
  • NGC 1068 H2O Masers amp 8 GHz Continuum
  • What is the Torus
  • X-ray Obscuration
  • Lag Times ― BLR and near-IR
  • The Dust-Sublimation Transition
  • Slide 16
  • Grand Unification Theory
  • Clumpy Torus Modeling
  • Cloud Properties in TOR Outflow
  • Circinus Water Masers
  • Circinus VLTI Imaging
  • Geometry
  • TOR Mass Outflow Rate
  • Torus Disappearance at Low Luminosities
  • Slide 25
  • Slide 26
  • Slide 27
  • Slide 28
  • Slide 29
  • Slide 30
  • TOR Energy Outflow Rate
  • Final Speculation