NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010A-0081
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PI: Makoto Kishimoto, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, mk@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Address: IR interferometry, Auf dem Huegel 69, Bonn 53121, Germany
CoI: Robert Antonucci, UC Santa Barbara
CoI: Richard Barvainis, National Science Foundation
CoI: Sebastian Hoenig, MPIfR
CoI: Florentin Millour, MPIfR
CoI: Konrad Tristram, MPIfR
CoI: Gerd Weigelt, MPIfR
Title: Probing the innermost infrared emission in the brightest Type 1 AGN with the CHARA array
Abstract:
We are making a major progress in AGN studies with the Keck long-
baseline interferometer in the near-IR. Based on our recent
observations, we are spatially resolving the innermost structure of the
AGN tori, and mapping out its radial structure quantitatively. This
totally new knowledge could well be the key to understand the critical
accretion process toward the central engine. Here we propose to
consolidate our new exploration by probing the structure of the
brightest Type 1 AGN at the highest spatial frequencies using very long
baselines, available only with the CHARA array.
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8000, Fax: (520) 318-8360
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