Dusty warm absorbers: The case of IRAS 13349+2438

Warm absorbers are an important new probe of the central region of active g alaxies (AGN). Observing and modeling this component provides a wealth of i nformation on the nature of the warm absorber itself, its relation to other components of the active nucleus, and the intrinsic AGN X-ray spectral sha pe. We briefly review the general properties of dusty warm gas. For the first t ime, we then apply such a model to the IR loud quasar It was the first to b e suggested to host a dusty warm absorber (Brandt et al. 1996), but has not yet been modeled as such.