precision AGN dust torus reverberation mapping with NIRSPEC@JWST IFU

Thoughts during a NIRSPEC IST meeting on possible nearby-galaxy GTO programs in 2019+

The geometry of the dust torus in Seyferts can be mapped by watching the dust response
to accretion disk variations. I got excited about (and learned about) this topic in the
context of Kirsten Schnülle's and J-U Pott's paper (Schnülle et al 2013)
on 5-band monitoring of NGC 4151.

If one considers the 3"x3" IFU with 30x30 0.1"x0.1" pixels and the R=100 grim,
one should get:
 -- wavelength coverage from 0.8 - 5 mum
 -- reproducability and flexibility <1%
 -- very high S/N
 -- very high spatial resolution to subtract stellar body...

Worth a chat with Bernhard D., Kirsten, J-U ..