Investigating Circumstellar Disk Geometry and Dust Properties with Coronagraphic Polarimetry

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Aug 2009

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EXOPLANETS AND DISKS: THEIR FORMATION AND DIVERSITY: Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, V

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Circumstellar Shells, Clouds, And Expanding Envelopes, Circumstellar Masers, Photometric, Polarimetric, And Spectroscopic Instrumentation, Interstellar Dust Grains, Diffuse Emission, Infrared Cirrus, Astrometric And Interferometric Instruments

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High angular resolution coronagraphy and imaging polarimetry have both proved to be valuable tools for studying the properties of circumstellar disks around young stars, but only recently has it become possible to combine these techniques together. Coronagraphic polarimetry observations, obtainable with ACS and NICMOS on the Hubble Space Telescope, and some adaptiveoptics-corrected telescopes on the ground, are now providing new constraints on light scattered on sub-arcsecond scales within disks. When combined with multiwavelength numerical radiative transfer models, these data can yield insight into both the overall disk geometry as well as the size distribution and other properties of their constituent dust grains. We present initial results from several recent HST programs studying disks around young stars, summarize ongoing modeling efforts, and discuss future prospects.

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