Multi-technique Observations and Modeling of Protoplanetary Disks
First Author:
Christophe Pinte
Email: pinte AT astro.ex.ac.uk
University of Exeter
School of Physics, Stocker Road
Exeter, EX4 3RA, UK
Coauthors:
Menard, Francois, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Grenoble
Duchene, Gaspard, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Grenoble
Patience, Jenny, University of Exeter
Ceccarelli, Cecilia, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Grenoble
Gilles, Duvert, Laboratoire d'astrophysique de Grenoble
Abstract
Most of the studies on circumstellar disks are based on models that put an emphasis on fitting either SEDs or scattered light images or molecular emission maps. In this contribution, we present a more general approach which aims at interpreting the increasing amount of observational data in the framework of a single model, in order to obtain a more global picture and to better characterize both the dust population and the gas disk properties.
The main objective of this general method is to couple the constraints from the gas- and dust-oriented studies to shed light on aspects of the disk structure that are cannot otherwise be studied in a coherent manner.
Results of such a modeling approach, applied to the disk surrounding IRAS 04158+2805 for which a large observational data-set is available, are presented.
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