I will present the results of dust radiative transfer (RT) model simulations of the nearby AGN NGC 1068. Using SKIRT, a state of the art RT code, we aim at reproducing not only the observed integrated spectral energy distribution, but also the spatially resolved one, i.e. comparing images and RT model in bands from the UV to the sub-millimeter. Like this we can study and analyze the dust heating mechanism and processes in the different places within the galaxy. We also include and take into account the possible heating of dust at large scales from the AGN accretion disk: it is usually assumed that its emission only affects the dust locally, i.e. in the molecular torus. Nevertheless, photons escaping within the dust-free region, might have an impact on the dust temperature at larger scales, thus affecting our understanding of the galaxy's properties and having an impact on the determination of the star formation rate from infrared luminosity indicators.
Enviado por j.fritz@irya.unam.mx, 2019 Oct