The Role of Opacities in Calculating the Structure and Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks
Abstract
The most important heating agent of protoplanetary disks is absorption of radiation arising in the very active stellar atmosphere and in the accretion flows onto the star. Here, I give a brief review of the opacity mechanisms important in disks and of their current treatment.
- Publication:
-
Workshop on Astrophysical Opacities
- Pub Date:
- August 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018ASPC..515..231C