A mid-infrared spectroscopic atlas of local active galactic nuclei on sub-arcsecond resolution using GTC/CanariCam

AA-H acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under the 2011 Severo Ochoa Programme MINECO SEV-2011-0187. AA-H and AH-C acknowledge financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through grant AYA2012-31447, which is party funded by the FEDER programme, PE from grant AYA2012-31277, and LC from grant AYA2012-32295. CRA acknowledges financial support from the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme (PIEF-GA-2012-327934). T.D-S. acknowledges support from ALMA-CONICYT project 31130005 and FONDECYT 1151239.

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