02.07.2013 Views

Radiative Transfer in Protoplanetary Disks

Radiative Transfer in Protoplanetary Disks

Radiative Transfer in Protoplanetary Disks

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

R<strong>in</strong>g Radius (AU)<br />

100.00<br />

10.00<br />

1.00<br />

0.10<br />

0.01<br />

Inner radius ot T Tauri stars<br />

Radii <strong>in</strong>ferred from <strong>in</strong>terferometry larger than predicted<br />

HAe Objects<br />

HBe Objects<br />

TTS Objects<br />

Sublimation radius: direct dust heat<strong>in</strong>g, backwarm<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Sublimation radius: direct dust heat<strong>in</strong>g, no backwarm<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Sublimation radius: standard model<br />

CTTS<br />

10 0<br />

10 0<br />

10 0<br />

Sublimation radius<br />

Herbig Ae<br />

10 2<br />

10 2<br />

10 2<br />

Lstar + Laccretion (Lsolar)<br />

10 4<br />

10 4<br />

10 4<br />

1000K 1000K 1000K<br />

1000K 1000K<br />

1500K 1500K 1500K<br />

1500K 1500K 1500K<br />

1000K 1000K 1000K<br />

1500K 1500K 1500K<br />

10 6<br />

10 6<br />

10 6<br />

Direct heat<strong>in</strong>g of <strong>in</strong>ner dust disk<br />

Star<br />

(magnetospheric<br />

accretion?)<br />

optically!th<strong>in</strong> gas<br />

(puffed!up<br />

<strong>in</strong>ner wall?)<br />

Dust Sublimation<br />

Radius R s<br />

"Standard" Disk Model ! oblique disk heat<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Star<br />

(magnetospheric<br />

accretion?)<br />

optically!thick<br />

gas<br />

Dust Sublimation<br />

Radius R s<br />

Fig. 2.— Measured sizes of HAeBe and T Tauri objects vs. central lum<strong>in</strong>osity (stellar + accretion shock); and com<br />

sublimation Millan-Gabet radii for dust directly et heated heatedal by by2006 the central lum<strong>in</strong>osity (solid and dashed l<strong>in</strong>es) and for the oblique heat<strong>in</strong>g i<br />

classical models (dotted l<strong>in</strong>e). A schematic representation ofthekeyfeaturesof<strong>in</strong>nerdiskstructure<strong>in</strong>thesetwoclasses<br />

f<br />

flared flared flared disk disk disk

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!