  We present the first results of the Galaxy Activity, Torus and Outflows
Survey (GATOS), a project aimed at understanding the properties of the dusty
molecular tori and their connection to the host galaxy in nearby Seyfert
galaxies. Our project expands the range of AGN luminosities and Eddington
ratios covered by previous surveys of Seyferts conducted by ALMA and allows us
to study the gas feeding and feedback cycle in a combined sample of 19
Seyferts. We used ALMA to obtain new images of the emission of molecular gas
and dust using the CO(3-2) and HCO+(4-3) lines as well as their underlying
continuum emission at 870 microns with high spatial resolutions (0.1'' ~ 7 - 13
pc) in the CND of 10 nearby (D < 28 Mpc) Seyfert galaxies. Our new ALMA
observations detect 870 micron continuum and CO line emission from spatially
resolved disks located around the AGN in all the sources. The bulk of the
continuum flux can be accounted for by thermal emission from dust in the
majority of the targets. For most of the sources the disks show a preponderant
orientation perpendicular to the AGN wind axes, as expected for dusty molecular
tori. The median diameters and molecular gas masses of the tori are ~ 42 pc,
and ~ 6 x 10**5 Msun, respectively. We find a positive correlation between the
line-of-sight gas column densities responsible for the absorption of X-rays and
the molecular gas column densities derived from CO towards the AGN in our
sources. The radial distributions of molecular gas in the CND of our combined
sample show signs of nuclear-scale molecular gas deficits. We also detect
molecular outflows in the sources that show the most extreme nuclear-scale gas
deficits in our sample. These observations find for the first time supporting
evidence that the imprint of AGN feedback is more extreme in higher luminosity
and/or higher Eddington ratio Seyfert galaxies.
