Accretion Disks Around Young Objects. III. Grain Growth

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2001-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101443v1

Astrophys.J.553:321-334,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

29 pages, including 11 figures and 1 table, APJ accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/320655

We present detailed models of irradiated T Tauri disks including dust grain growth with power-law size distributions. The models assume complete mixing between dust and gas and solve for the vertical disk structure self-consistentlyincluding the heating effects of stellar irradiation as well as local viscous heating. For a given total dust mass, grain growth is found to decrease the vertical height of the surface where the optical depth to the stellar radiation becomes unit and thus the local irradiation heating, while increasing the disk emission at mm and sub-mm wavelengths. The resulting disk models are less geometrically thick than our previous models assuming interstellar medium dust, and agree better with observed spectral energy distributions and images of edge-on disks, like HK Tau/c and HH 30. The implications of models with grain growth for determining disk masses from long-wavelength emission are considered.

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