Vural, Jasmin: Resolving the inner circumstellar disks of T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars with infrared interferometry. - Bonn, 2015. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-39581,
author = {{Jasmin Vural}},
title = {Resolving the inner circumstellar disks of T Tauri and Herbig Ae/Be stars with infrared interferometry},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2015,
month = mar,

note = {Circumstellar disks around young stellar objects (YSO) are a fundamental element of star and planet formation. The inner disk regions of pre-main sequence stars are hot enough for dust sublimation and a rim between dust-free and dusty disk regions can form. This rim can influence the outer parts of the disk through shielding of stellar radiation and its radius can reveal hints to the structure of the very inner disk.
The nearest star-forming regions, which harbor YSO, are too far away to allow direct imaging of the inner disk regions. Only recently, it became possible to resolve astronomical objects on spatial scales needed for the investigation of the inner disk regions. The technique used for these high-angular resolution observations is infrared interferometry, which combines the light from several telescopes to create interferograms. The facility used in the projects of this thesis is the Very Large Telescope Interferometer with the interferometric instruments AMBER and MIDI, which operate in the near- and mid-infrared (approximately 1.5 μm - 2.4 μm and 8 μm - 13 μm), respectively. With these instruments, it is possible to determine the radius and shape of the disk region emitting in the these wavelength regimes.
The dust typically present in circumstellar disks evaporates at around 1500 K and hence, emits at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths, where it can be observed with AMBER and MIDI. To obtain the characteristic size of the observed emitting region, the interferometric data can be modeled with geometric ring models. The resulting disk radii are typically proportional to the stellar luminosity, but can deviate from this proportionality due to different physical effects determining the disk structure in addition to the stellar radiation. Taking into account as well the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the respective star-disk system, temperature-gradient models give an estimate of the disk properties like the inner radius of the dust disk, the radial temperature distribution, and the inclination of the disk.
The projects presented in this thesis employ the described methods for studies of the inner disk regions of three different pre-main sequence stars: the T Tauri star S CrA N, the Herbig Ae star V1026 Sco, and the Herbig B[e] star HD85567.
The near-infrared radii found for the circumstellar disks of the observed stars give a differentiated picture of the inner disk regions of pre-main sequence stars. The assumed proportionality between stellar luminosity and near-infrared radius reproduces the measurements generally only as an approximate value. The radii of T Tauri and high-mass stars are found to deviate significantly due to different effects influencing the dust sublimation, which are still not completely understood. In addition, the disk structures derived with temperature-gradient modeling contributed to understanding the complex inner disk structures of YSO.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/6444}
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