SAFIR: testing the coexistence of AGN and star formation activity and the nature of the dusty torus in the local universe

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M. Sánchez-Portal, M. Castillo-Fraile, C. R. Almeida, P. Esquej, A. Alonso-Herrero, A. P. Garćıa, J. Acosta-Pulido, B. Altieri, A. Bongiovanni, J. M. Castro-Cer'on

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J. Cepa, D. Coia, L. Conversi, J. Fritz, J. Gonzalez-serrano, E. Hatziminaoglou, M. Pović, J. M. R. Espinosa, I. Valtchanov

/ Abstract

We present the Seyfert and star formation Activity in the Far-InfraRed (SAFIR) project, a small (15.1h) Herschel guaranteed time proposal performing PACS and SPIRE imaging of a small sample of nearby Seyfert galaxies. This project is aimed at studying the physical nature of the nuclear IR emission by means of multi-component spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and the star formation properties of AGN hosts, as traced by cold dust. We summarize the results achieved so far and outline the on-going work.

Journal: arXiv: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics