Spitzer Space Telescope Measurements of Dust Reverberation Lags in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 6418

Authors

Billy Vazquez, Rochester Institute of Technology
Pasquale Galianni, University of St. Andrews, UK
Michael Richmond, Rochester Institute of Technology
Andrew Robinson, Rochester Institute of Technology
David J. Axon, Rochester Institute of Technology
Keith Horne, University of St. Andrews, UK
Triana Almeyda, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Fausnaugh, Ohio State University
Bradley M. Peterson, Ohio State University
Mark Bottorff, Southwestern University
Jack Gallimore, Bucknell University
Moshe Elitzur, University of KentuckyFollow
Hagai Netzer, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Alessandro Marconi, Università di Firenze, Italy
Alessandro Capetti, INAF—Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy
Dan Batcheldor, Florida Institute of Technology
Catherine Buchanan, University of Melbourne, Australia
Giovanna Stirpe, INAF—Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Italy
Makoto Kishimoto, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany
Christopher Packham, University of Florida
Enrique Perez, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain
Clive Tadhunter, University of Sheffield, UK
John Upton, Southwestern University
Vincente Estrada-Carpenter, Southwestern University

Abstract

We present results from a 15 month campaign of high-cadence (~3 days) mid-infrared Spitzer and optical (B and V) monitoring of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 6418, with the objective of determining the characteristic size of the dusty torus in this active galactic nucleus (AGN). . . .

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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-12-2015

Notes/Citation Information

Published in The Astrophysical Journal, v. 801, no. 2, article 127, p. 1-11.

© 2015. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Reproduced by permission of the AAS.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/801/2/127

Funding Information

This work is based (in part) on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. Support for this work was provided by NASA through an award issued by JPL/Caltech, GO-80120. This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France, and of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Funding for SDSS-III has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. . . . The Faulkes Telescope Project is an educational and research arm of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGTN). BMP is supported by NSF grant AST-1008882.

Related Content

This work is based (in part) on observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a contract with NASA. . . . This research has made use of the SIMBAD database, operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France, and of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. . . . The SDSS-III web site is http://sdss3.org/ SDSS-III is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions of the SDSS-III Collaboration including the University of Arizona, the Brazilian Participation Group, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Florida, the French Participation Group, the German Participation Group, Harvard University, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, New Mexico State University, New York University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the Spanish Participation Group, University of Tokyo, University of Utah, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, University of Washington, and Yale University. The Liverpool Telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by Liverpool John Moores University in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias with financial support from the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council.

Repository Citation

Vazquez, Billy; Galianni, Pasquale; Richmond, Michael; Robinson, Andrew; Axon, David J.; Horne, Keith; Almeyda, Triana; Fausnaugh, Michael; Peterson, Bradley M.; Bottorff, Mark; Gallimore, Jack; Elitzur, Moshe; Netzer, Hagai; Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa; Marconi, Alessandro; Capetti, Alessandro; Batcheldor, Dan; Buchanan, Catherine; Stirpe, Giovanna; Kishimoto, Makoto; Packham, Christopher; Perez, Enrique; Tadhunter, Clive; Upton, John; and Estrada-Carpenter, Vincente, "Spitzer Space Telescope Measurements of Dust Reverberation Lags in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy NGC 6418" (2015). Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications. 256.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/physastron_facpub/256