Azimuthally averaged surface density, midplane pressure, and aspect ratio (used as a proxy for temperature, see Eq. (7)) of HD 163296 for a locally isothermal (in orange) and a radiative (in green) disk after 1000 orbits with an embedded planet with mass 0.5 M_J at 48 au. Vertical black lines mark the location of the planet. The dashed and dotted red lines in the bottom panel denote the aspect ratio profiles used in the simulations by Zhang et al. (2018), where h ∝ r^1∕4 and h_p = 0.05 and 0.07, respectively. The fact that our aspect ratio profile is bounded by these two curves allows us to validate our results by comparing them to that study (see Sect. 4).