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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 624, Issue 2, Pages 832-840Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/429266
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accretion, accretion disks; circumstellar matter; instrumentation : interferometers; radiative transfer; stars : formation; stars : pre-main-sequence
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We report the results of a sensitive K-band survey of Herbig Ae/Be disk sizes using the 85 m baseline Keck Interferometer. Targets were chosen to span the maximum range of stellar properties to probe the disk size dependence on luminosity and effective temperature. For most targets, the measured near-infrared sizes (ranging from 0.2 to 4 AU) support a simple disk model possessing a central optically thin (dust-free) cavity, ringed by hot dust emitting at the expected sublimation temperatures (T-s similar to 1000-1500 K). Furthermore, we find a tight correlation of disk size with source luminosity R proportional to L-1/2 for Ae and late Be systems (valid over more than two decades in luminosity), confirming earlier suggestions based on lower quality data. Interestingly, the inferred dust-free inner cavities of the highest luminosity sources (Herbig B0-B3 stars) are undersized compared to predictions of the optically thin cavity'' model, likely because of optically thick gas within the inner AU.
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