Open AccessRecent Results from the SAFIR Project
Author(s) -
M. SánchezPortal,
M. Castillo-Fraile,
C. Ramos Almeida,
P. Esquej,
A. AlonsoHerrero,
Ana María Pérez García,
J. A. AcostaPulido,
B. Altiéri,
Á. Bongiovanni,
J. M. Castro Cerón,
J. Cepa,
D. Coia,
L. Conversi,
J. Fritz,
J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano,
E. Hatziminaoglou,
M. Pović,
J. M. Rodrguez Espinosa,
I. Valtchanov
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta polytechnica ctu proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2336-5382
DOI - 10.14311/app.2014.01.0307
Subject(s) - galaxy , space observatory , astrophysics , physics , observatory , spire (mollusc) , astronomy , star formation , luminous infrared galaxy , torus , on board , infrared , remote sensing , geography , geometry , mathematics , zoology , biology
The "Seyfert and star formation Activity in the Far-Infrared" (SAFIR) project is aimed at studying the physical nature of the nuclear IR emission and star formation properties of a small sample of nearby Seyfert galaxies observed with the PACS and SPIRE instruments on board the Herschel space observatory. In this paper, we review the achieved results, that reveal the importance of the far-IR range to improve the quality and reliability of the estimates of basic AGN torus parameters, and describe some preliminary outcome from the on-going work on the dust properties of resolved AGN host galaxies.