Testing the Density Distribution of Young Circumstellar Disks
Abstract
A new disk density distribution was proposed by Dullemond et al. for explaining the near-infrared bump in the spectral energy distribution (SED) of Herbig Ae/Be stars. While this distribution explains well the SED, we wanted to verify if it fits also the polarization observations by comparing, with our Monte Carlo code, Dullemond's distribution with a simple flared disk.
- Publication:
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Astronomical Polarimetry 2008: Science from Small to Large Telescopes
- Pub Date:
- November 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011ASPC..449..336J