Diagnosing the Structure of the HD 163296 Protoplanetary Disk via Coronagraphic Imaging Polarimetry

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Circumstellar Shells, Clouds, And Expanding Envelopes, Circumstellar Masers, Stellar Atmospheres, Radiative Transfer, Opacity And Line Formation, Binary And Multiple Stars

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We report our initial analysis of the H-band polarized and total intensity of the nearby Herbig Ae star HD 163296, and characterize the morphology of the scattered light disk in the context of previous optical HST coronagraphic imagery. Our observations were obtained as part of a multi-epoch campaign designed to diagnose and correlate the behavior of the inner and outer regions of select protoplanetary disks. This campaign will help test recent suggestions (Sitko et al. 2008; Wisniewski et al. 2008) that the HD 163296 disk experiences the novel phenomenon of time-variable self-shadowing, whereby occasional changes in the scale height of the inner disk wall induce changes in the illumination of the outer disk.

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