TY - JOUR
T1 - Full two-dimensional radiative transfer modelling of the transitional disk LkCa 15 (Research Note)
AU - Mulders, G. D.
AU - Dominik, C.
AU - Min, M.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Context. With the legacy of Spitzer and current advances in (sub)mm astronomy, a considerable number of so-called “transitional”
disks has been identified which are believed to contain gaps or have developped large inner holes, some filled with dust. This may
indicate that complex geometries may be a key feature in disk evolution that has to be understood and modelled correctly. The disk
around LkCa 15 is such a disk, with a large gap ranging from ∼5–46 AU, as identified by Espaillat et al. (2007, ApJ, 670, L135) using
1+1D radiative transfer modelling. To fit the spectral energy distribution (SED), they propose two possible scenarios for the inner
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AB - Context. With the legacy of Spitzer and current advances in (sub)mm astronomy, a considerable number of so-called “transitional”
disks has been identified which are believed to contain gaps or have developped large inner holes, some filled with dust. This may
indicate that complex geometries may be a key feature in disk evolution that has to be understood and modelled correctly. The disk
around LkCa 15 is such a disk, with a large gap ranging from ∼5–46 AU, as identified by Espaillat et al. (2007, ApJ, 670, L135) using
1+1D radiative transfer modelling. To fit the spectral energy distribution (SED), they propose two possible scenarios for the inner
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U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/200912743
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/200912743
M3 - Article
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 512
SP - A11/1-A11/5
JO - Astronomy and Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy and Astrophysics
ER -