your ID: 0067 
First Name: Moshe 
Last Name: Elitzur 
Affiliation: University of Kentucky 

Title: Unification Issues and the AGN Torus
Authors: Moshe Elitzur 
Topic: 6 
Session: oral 

Abstract: Compact sizes indicate that the torus is the region of the clumpy wind
 coming off the accretion disk in which the clouds are dusty and optically thick. 
Torus clouds were likely detected in recent water maser observations of NGC 3079. 
 The torus disappears at bolometric luminosities lower than ~10^42 erg/s. 
 At lower luminosities, the broad line region, too, disappears and the AGN main 
dynamic channel for release of accreted mass seems to be switching from torus 
outflow to radio jets.