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Spectral Energy Distributions of T Tauri and Herbig Ae Disks: Grain Mineralogy, Parameter Dependences, and Comparison with ISO LWS Observations | E. I. Chiang
; M. K. Joung
; M. J. Creech-Eakman
; C. Qi
; J. E. Kessler
; G. A. Blake
; E. F. van Dishoeck
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27 Sep 2000 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | IAS), M. K. Joung (Columbia University), M. J. Creech-Eakman (JPL), C. Qi (Harvard CfA), J. E. Kessler (Caltech), G. A. Blake (Caltech), and E. F. van Dishoeck (Leiden | Abstract: | We improve upon the radiative, hydrostatic equilibrium models of passive circumstellar disks constructed by Chiang & Goldreich (1997). New features include (1) account for a range of particle sizes, (2) employment of laboratory-based optical constants of representative grain materials, and (3) numerical solution of the equations of radiative and hydrostatic equilibrium within the original 2-layer (disk surface + disk interior) approximation. We explore how the spectral energy distribution (SED) of a face-on disk depends on grain size distributions, disk geometries and surface densities, and stellar photospheric temperatures. Observed SEDs of 3 Herbig Ae and 2 T Tauri stars, including spectra from the Long Wavelength Spectrometer (LWS) aboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), are fitted with our models. Silicate emission bands from optically thin, superheated disk surface layers appear in nearly all systems. Water ice emission bands appear in LWS spectra of 2 of the coolest stars. Infrared excesses in several sources are consistent with vertical settling of photospheric grains. While this work furnishes further evidence that passive reprocessing of starlight by flared disks adequately explains the origin of infrared-to-millimeter wavelength excesses of young stars, we emphasize how the SED alone does not provide sufficient information to constrain particle sizes and disk masses uniquely. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0009428 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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