Period: 2016 – present.
Funding: various agencies including the National Astronomy Plan.
PIs (Science Board): Almudena Alonso Herrero (CAB), Sebastian Hönig, Nancy Levenson, Chris Packham, Cristina Ramos Almeida
Webpage: http://gatos.strw.leidenuniv.nl/
This project studies the environment of super-massive black holes that are actively accreting matter. Our specific objectives are to investigate the nuclear activity, torus and outflows of nearby active galaxies by studying molecular and ionised gas and dust on physical scales of tens of parsecs to several kiloparsecs in galaxies. For this we are using observations with the best angular resolution in the optical, infrared and (sub)millimetre obtained with the HST, ALMA, VLT, GTC and in the future with the JWST. In addition, our team develops radiative transfer models and numerical simulations of the torus and disc-wind dynamics for comparison with observations.
