The AGN dusty torus as a clumpy two-phase medium: radiative transfer
  modeling with SKIRT
  We modeled the AGN dusty torus as a clumpy two-phase medium, with
high-density clumps embedded in a low-density interclump dust. To obtain
spectral energy distributions and images of the torus at different wavelengths,
we employed the 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code SKIRT. Apart from the
grid of two-phase models, we calculated the corresponding sets of clumps-only
models and models with a smooth dust distribution for comparison. We found that
the most striking feature of the two-phase model is that it might offer a
natural solution to the common issue reported in a number of papers -- the
observed excess of the near-infrared emission.
