VOSED: a tool for the characterization of developing planetary systems

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Aug 2007

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Highlights of Astronomy, Volume 14 IAU XXVI General Assembly, 14-25 August 2006 Karel A. van der Hucht, ed., p.634

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The transition phase from optically thick disks around young pre-main sequence stars to optically thin debris disks around Vega type stars is not well understood and plays an important role in the theory of planet formation. One of the most promising methods to characterize this process is the fitting of the observed SED with disk models. However, despite its potential, this technique is affected by two major problems if a non-VO methodology is used: on the one hand, SEDs building requires accessing to a variety of astronomical services which provide, in most of the cases, heterogeneous information. On the other hand, model fitting demands a tremendous amount of work and time which makes it very inefficient even for a modest dataset. This is an important issue considering the large volume of data that missions like Spitzer is producing. In the framework of the Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO) we have developed VOSED an application that permits to characterize the protoplanetary disks around young stars taking advantage of the already existing VO standards and tools. The application allows the user to gather photometric and spectroscopic information from a number of VO services, trace the SED, and fit the photospheric contribution with a stellar model and the IR excess with a disk model. The Kurucz models described in Castelli et al. (1997, A&A, 318, 841) are used to reproduce the photospheric contribution whereas the grid of models of accretion disks irradiated by their central stars developed by D'Alessio et al. (2005, ) is used for the disk contribution. In both cases, the models are retrieved from the SVO Theoretical Model Web Server using the TSAP protocol. As pointed out before, model fitting constitutes a fundamental step in the analysis process. VOSED includes a tool to estimate the model parameters (both stellar and disk) based on bayesian inference. The main aim of the tool is to quantitatively analyse the data in terms of the evidence of models of different complexity, evaluate what other alternative models can compete with the most a posteriori probable one and what are the most discriminant observations to discard alternatives.

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