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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 747, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/747/2/103
关键词
accretion, accretion disks; circumstellar matter; protoplanetary disks; stars: formation; stars: pre-main sequence
资金
- National Science Foundation [0901947]
- PAPIIT-DGAPA UNAM
- NASA [NNX08AFM 5154G]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0901947] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Two decades ago transitional disks (TDs) described spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of T Tauri stars with small near-IR excesses, but significant mid-and far-IR excesses. Many inferred this indicated dust-free holes in disks possibly cleared by planets. Recently, this term has been applied disparately to objects whose Spitzer SEDs diverge from the expectations for a typical full disk (FD). Here, we use irradiated accretion disk models to fit the SEDs of 15 such disks in NGC 2068 and IC 348. One group has a dip in infrared emission while the others' continuum emission decreases steadily at all wavelengths. We find that the former have an inner disk hole or gap at intermediate radii in the disk and we call these objects transitional disks and pre-transitional disks (PTDs), respectively. For the latter group, we can fit these SEDs with FD models and find that millimeter data are necessary to break the degeneracy between dust settling and disk mass. We suggest that the term transitional only be applied to objects that display evidence for a radical change in the disk's radial structure. Using this definition, we find that TDs and PTDs tend to have lower mass accretion rates than FDs and that TDs have lower accretion rates than PTDs. These reduced accretion rates onto the star could be linked to forming planets. Future observations of TDs and PTDs will allow us to better quantify the signatures of planet formation in young disks.
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