Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-06-26
Astrophys.J. 560 (2001) 957-969
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/323057
A model for irradiated dust disks around Herbig Ae stars is proposed. The model is based on the flaring disk model of Chiang & Goldreich (1997), but with the central regions of the disk removed. The inner rim of the disk is puffed up and is much hotter than the rest of the disk, because it is directly exposed to the stellar flux. If located at the dust evaporation radius, its reemitted flux produces a conspicuous bump in the SED which peaks at 2-3 micron. We propose that this emission is the explanation for the near-infrared bump observed in the SEDs of Herbig Ae stars. We study for which stellar parameters this bump would be observable, and find that it is the case for Herbig Ae stellar parameters but not for T-Tauri stars, confirming what is found from the observations. We also study the effects of the shadow cast by the inner rim over the rest of the flaring disk. The shadowed region can be quite large, and under some circumstances the entire disk may lie in the shadow. This shadowed region will be much cooler than an unshadowed flaring disk, since its only heating sources are radial radiative diffusion and possible indirect sources of irradiation. Under certain special circumstances the shadowing effect can suppress, or even completely eliminate, the 10 micron emission feature from the spectrum, which might explain the anomalous SEDs of some isolated Herbig Ae stars in the sample of Meeus et al. (2001). At much larger radii the disk emerges from the shadow, and continues as a flaring disk towards the outer edge. The complete model, including structure of the inner edge, shadowed region and the flared outer part, is described in detail in this paper, and we show examples of the general behavior of the model for varying parameters.
Dominik Carsten
Dullemond Cornelis Petrus
Natta Antonella
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