High-resolution studies of protoplanetary disks

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Feb 2005

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PhD Thesis, Combined Faculties for the Natural Sciences and for Mathematics of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. IX + 111 p

Mathematics

Protoplanetary Disks, Multiwavelength Observations

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This work presents a multiwavelength search (near-IR, mid-IR, mm) for previously unknown circumstellar disks and a study of those disk candidate objects which are not jet well characterised in the literature. 22 candidate stars, most of these constituting known exoplanet systems, were examined for circumstellar material using the Adaptive Optics instrument ADONIS at La Silla Observatory (Chile). With the new Adaptive Optics system NAOS-CONICA at Paranal (Chile) we tested the technique of Polarimetric Differential Imaging. Advances in mid-IR data reduction were achieved, e.g., a method was developed to correct the chromatic and airmass dependent extinction. We show new N-band photometry and spectra for eight pre-main sequence stars, six main sequence stars and one post-MS object using the TIMMI2 camera at La Silla, and model the emission spectra with a mixture of silicates consisting of different grain sizes and composition. The most important result thereof is the discovery of two previously unknown circumstellar disks around HD 72106 and HD 113766. Both objects are host to highly processed silicates, resembling those found in solar-system comets. We further present the first observational confirmation for an extended circumstellar dust disk around ɛ Eri obtained with the bolometer array SIMBA at the 15 m radio telescope SEST in La Silla and demonstrate that the previously claimed disk substructure may alternatively be explained by remnant noise effects.

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