On the intrinsic AGN emission in far-infrared/sub-mm
  Far-infrared (far-IR)/sub-mm emission linked to AGN-heated dust has been a
topic of contention for many years. Results have been diverse and various views
have been presented. The empirical AGN SED derived by Symeonidis et al. (2016,
hereafter S16) has more far-IR/sub-mm emission than other SEDs in the
literature, and thus it is contested by other works which argue that its
luminosity in that part of the spectrum is overestimated. Here, I investigate
this topic and the concerns raised over the S16 AGN SED. I also examine the
differences between the S16 AGN SED and other commonly-used empirical AGN SEDs.
My findings show that the reasons proposed by other works as to why the S16 AGN
SED is not a reasonable representation of AGN emission in the far-IR/sub-mm, do
not hold.
