Modeling the Infrared Emission from the HR 4796A Disk

Details Modeling the Infrared Emission from the HR 4796A Disk Modeling the Infrared Emission from the HR 4796A Disk

2003-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311071v1

Astrophys.J. 590 (2003) 368-378

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

published in The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 590, pp. 368--378; 26 pages; 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/374865

We model the spectral energy distribution (SED) from the mid-infrared to submillimeter of the ring-like disk of HR 4796A, the dustiest A-type star. We consider dust made either of coagulated but otherwise unaltered protostellar interstellar grains, or grains that are highly-processed in a protostellar/protoplanetary nebula with silicate dust annealed and carbon dust oxidized. Both types of dust are successful in reproducing the observed SED, provided that the grains are highly fluffy, with a vacuum volume fraction of \~90%. We find no evidence for the existence of a hot ``zodiacal dust'' component a few AU from the star, which was suggested by previous workers to account for the 10 micron-wavelength emission.

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