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Survival of the Obscuring Torus in the Most Powerful Active Galactic Nuclei

  • Authors: S. Mateos, F. J. Carrera, X. Barcons, A. Alonso-Herrero, A. Hernán-Caballero, M. Page, C. Ramos Almeida, A. Caccianiga, T. Miyaji, and A. Blain

2017 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 841 L18.

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Caption: Figure 2.

Luminosity dependence of the observed (circles) and intrinsic (squares) type-2 AGN fractions. The dashed line is the best fit to the intrinsic type-2 AGN fraction assuming no luminosity dependence. The solid line is the best fit assuming a power law dependence. Inset: probability density distributions of the best-fit power law index, α. The vertical lines represent the values of α expected in the receding torus models of Lawrence et al. (1991; ﹩\alpha \sim 0.5﹩) and Hönig & Beckert (2007; ﹩\alpha \sim 0.25﹩).

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