Infrared emission from the dusty veil around AGN
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We discuss consequences of the concept of a clumpy and dusty torus around AGN. Cloud-cloud collisions lead to an effective viscosity and a geometrically thick accretion disk, which has the required properties of a torus. A quantitative comparison of radiative transfer calculations for dust re-emission from the torus with NIR images, longbaseline visibilities and spectral energy distributions for the torus in the Seyfert nucleus of NGC 1068 is presented.
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