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Sketch of a deeply embedded young star with a rotating accreting disk, disk wind, and an envelope (cocoon) with low-density polar cavities. Dust particles are assumed to be near the polar axis and walls of the cavity. Possible profiles of emission lines are shown for several viewing conditions: direct (A) and scattered (B and C) radiation from the central object, which consists of the star, and its surrounding emitting region (e.g., disk and disk wind region). Here Ie is the emergent radiation from this central object, and  are the radiation scattered by the dust particles in cases B and C respectively, τA, τB and τC are the optical thickness of the circumstellar envelope at different heights above the disk (τB ≪ τA and τC ≪ τA), i is the viewing angle, i′ is the angle between the polar axis and direction to the scattering particle, and θ is a geometrical parameter.

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