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Advances in Astronomy
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 782030, 17 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/782030
Review Article

AGN Obscuration and the Unified Model

Stefano Bianchi,1 Roberto Maiolino,2,3 and Guido Risaliti4,5

1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
2INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Via di Frascati 33, 00040 Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
3Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 19 J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
4INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, L.go E. Fermi 5, Firenze, Italy
5High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 0218, USA

Received 31 August 2011; Accepted 29 December 2011

Academic Editor: Isabelle Gavignaud

Copyright © 2012 Stefano Bianchi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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