Fig. 3: The clumpy torus model describes the 1–1000 μm SED and morphological changes of the dust emission of Circinus. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: The clumpy torus model describes the 1–1000 μm SED and morphological changes of the dust emission of Circinus.

From: JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy

Fig. 3: The clumpy torus model describes the 1–1000 μm SED and morphological changes of the dust emission of Circinus.

a The 1–1000 μm photometric measurements from the literature (black dots) and our AMI/JWST observations at a 2.5 pc aperture (blue star) and at a large aperture of 12.3 pc (red star) of the central emission. The bandwidths of the AMI/JWST filters are shown as shadowed regions. The best-fits of the several torus models are shown. Labels indicate the dominant emitting and physical components. b–d Dust emission at 4.3 μm, 10 μm, and 700 μm as shown in Fig. 2 with the synthetic dust emission (white contours) using Hypercat with the best-fit clumpy torus model. The dust mass distribution of the best-fit clumpy torus model is shown in red contours and e.

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