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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 559, Issue 2, Pages 1147-1154Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/322345
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circumstellar matter; infrared : stars; stars : fundamental parameters; stars : individual (Vega); techniques : interferometric
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Near-infrared (2.2 mum) long baseline interferometric observations of Vega are presented. The stellar disk of the star has been resolved, and the data have been fitted with a limb-darkened stellar disk of diameter Theta (LD) = 3.28 +/-0.01 mas. The derived effective temperature is T-eff = 9553 +/- 111 K. However, the residuals resulting from the stellar disk model appear to be significant and display organized structure. Instrumental artifacts, stellar surface structure, stellar atmosphere structure, and extended emission/scattering from the debris disk are discussed as possible sources of the residuals. While the current data set cannot uniquely determine the origin of the residuals, the debris disk is found to be the most likely source. A simple debris disk model, with 3%-6% of Vega's flux emanating from the disk at r less than or similar to4 AU, can explain the residuals.
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