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Understanding optically thick CO ro-vibrational emission lines. The sketch can either represent the inner rim horizontally, or a distant disk column vertically. The gas and dust temperature structure is connected to τUV, the dust optical depth in the UV. High-J and low-J CO emission lines have different line optical depths, so their fluxes probe the contrast between gas and dust temperatures at different depths.

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