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Figure 1: A schematic representation of the geometries of the disk models studied in this work. The shadow cast by the inner rim is shaded light. |
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Figure 2:
The spectral energy distributions of the
DD04 flaring (full curve), DD04 self-shadowed (dashed curve) and CG97 (dotted curve) models. The full grey curve represents the
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Figure 3: Radial intensity profiles of the DD04 flaring, DD04 self-shadowed and CG97 models ( upper panel). The lower panel shows the normalized cumulative flux distribution of the models. The three regions of the disk that we distinguish ("bright inner rim'', "intermediate shadowed region'', and "outer disk'') are indicated for the DD04 flaring model (in the DD04 self-shadowed model, the intermediate shadowed region extends somewhat further outward). |
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Figure 4:
Simulated visibility curves V(B) of a CG97,
a DD04 flaring, and a DD04 self-shadowed disk model (from top to bottom,
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Figure 5:
Visibility curves
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Figure 6: The effect of the increased dust opacity in the silicate feature on the visibilities. The full lines show the visibility curves of theDD04 flaring model, the dashed lines show the visibility curves of the same model, where the silicate resonances have been removed inthe opacities prior to the ray tracing. |
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Figure 7: A diagnostic diagram used to distinguish between models with (DD04) and without (CG97) a bright inner rim, and between models with a flaring (DD04 flaring) and self-shadowed (DD04 self-sh) outer disk geometry. On the horizontal axis we plot the slope of the visibility curves between two appropriately chosen "normalized'' baseline lengths x1 and x2 (xi=Bi/d, where Bi is the baseline in m and d is the distance to the star in pc, see Sect. 3.4 for how x1 and x2 are best chosen). On the vertical axis we plot the predicted visibility at the longest baseline. The CG97 models have a much steeper slope than the DD04 models. The DD04 self-shadowed model has a much higher visibility than the DD04 flaring model. In the upper left corner we have indicated the uncertainties due to the limited precision of the visibility measurements, where we have assumed a 1% accuracy in visibility. In grey symbols we have plotted where in the diagram the various models end up if we artificially remove the silicate feature (as we did in Fig. 6). This can be regarded as an upper limit for the uncertainty due to mineralogy. |
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