Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
Jan 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21335804d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #358.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.501
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
Determining Herbig Ae/Be star dust parameters provides constraints for planet formation theory, and yields information about the matter around intermediate-mass stars as they approach the main sequence. In this dissertation talk, I present the results of a multiwavelength imaging and radiative transfer modeling study of Herbig Ae/Be stars, and a near-infrared instrumentation project, with the aim of parameterizing the dust in these systems. The Hubble Space Telescope was used to search for optical light scattered by dust in a sample of young stars. This survey provided the first scattered-light image of the circumstellar environment around the Herbig Ae/Be star HD 97048. Structure is observed in the dust distribution similar to that seen in other Herbig Ae/Be systems. A ground-based near-infrared imaging study of Herbig Ae/Be candidates was also carried out. Photometry was collected for spectral energy distribution construction, and binary candidates were resolved. Detailed dust modeling of HD 97048 and HD 100546 was carried out with a two-component geometry consisting of a flared disk and an extended envelope. The models achieve a reasonable global fit to the spectral energy distributions, and produce images with the desired geometry. The disk midplane densities are found to go as r-0.5 and r-1.8, giving disk dust masses of 3.0 x 10-4 and 5.9 x 10-5 Msun for HD 97048 and HD 100546, respectively. A gas-to-dust mass ratio lower limit of 3.2 was calculated for HD 97048. Furthermore, I have participated in the development of the WIYN High Resolution Infrared Camera. The instrument operates in the near-infrared ( 0.8 - 2.5 microns), includes 13 filters, and has a pixel size of 0.1 arcsec, resulting in a field of view of 3 arcmin x 3 arcmin. An angular resolution of 0.25 arcsec is anticipated. I provide an overview of the instrument and report performance results.
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