Light Echoes of Protoplanetary Disks
| Autor: | King, Austin J., Bromley, Benjamin C. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | ApJ 976 103 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8bc1 |
| Popis: | Light echoes offer a means of studying protoplanetary disks, including their geometry and composition, even when they are not spatially resolved. We present a test of this approach applied specifically to optically thick, geometrically flared disks around active stars. Here we adopt stellar parameters of an active M dwarf to calculate light echoes for disks and rings with radii that would produce time delays consistent with TESS short cadence (about 2 minutes) time bins. Our results show successful fits to disk parameters, highlighting the potential effectiveness of this method in the search for protoplanetary disks. Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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