Self-similarity and scaling behavior of IR emission from radiatively heated dust: I. Theory

Details Self-similarity and scaling behavior of IR emission from radiatively heated dust: I. Theory Self-similarity and scaling behavior of IR emission from radiatively heated dust: I. Theory

1996-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9612164v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.287:799-811,1997

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 Postscript figures (included), uses mn.sty. To appear in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Dust infrared emission possesses scaling properties. Overall luminosity is never an input parameter of the radiative transfer problem, spectral shape is the only relevant property of the heating radiation when the inner boundary of the dusty region is controlled by dust sublimation. Similarly, the absolute scales of densities and distances are irrelevant; the geometry enters only through angles, relative thicknesses and aspect ratios, and the actual magnitudes of densities and distances enter only through one independent parameter, the overall optical depth. Dust properties enter only through dimensionless, normalized distributions that describe the spatial variation of density and the wavelength dependence of scattering and absorption efficiencies. Scaling enables a systematic approach to modeling and classification of IR spectra. We develop a new, fully scale-free method for solving radiative transfer, present exact numerical results, and derive approximate analytical solutions for spherical geometry, covering the entire range of parameter space relevant to observations. Scaling implies tight correlations among the SEDs of various members of the same class of sources such as young stellar objects, late-type stars, etc. In particular, all members of the same class occupy common, well defined regions in color-color diagrams. The observational data corroborate the existence of these correlations.

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