The Messenger GRAVITY Science
An Image of the Dust Sublimation Region in the Nucleus of NGC 1068
No. 178 (December 2019), 24–26
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The superb resolution of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) and the unrivalled sensitivity of GRAVITY have allowed us to reconstruct the first detailed image of the dust sublimation region in an active galaxy. In the nearby archetypal Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068, the 2 µm continuum emission traces a highly inclined thin ring-like structure with a radius of 0.24 pc. The observed morphology challenges the picture of a geometrically and optically thick torus.
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Created: 2019-12-01/2019-12-31
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GRAVITY Collaboration; An Image of the Dust Sublimation Region in the Nucleus of NGC 1068. The Messenger 178 (December 2019): 24–26. https://doi.org/10.18727/0722-6691/5167