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Gaps And Rings In An Alma Survey Of Disks In The Taurus Star-Forming Region, Feng Long, Paola Pinilla, Gregory J. Herczeg, Daniel Harsono, Giovanni Dipierro, Ilaria Pascucci, Nathan Hendler, Marco Tazzari, Enrico Ragusa, Colette Salyk, Suzan Edwards, Giuseppe Lodato, Gerrit Van De Plas, Doug Johnstone, Yao Liu, Yann Boehler, Sylvie Cabrit, Carlo F. Manara, Francois Menard, Gijs D. Mulders, Brunella Nisini, William J. Fischer, Elisabetta Rigliaco, Andrea Banzatti, Henning Avenhaus, Michael Gully-Santiago Dec 2018

Gaps And Rings In An Alma Survey Of Disks In The Taurus Star-Forming Region, Feng Long, Paola Pinilla, Gregory J. Herczeg, Daniel Harsono, Giovanni Dipierro, Ilaria Pascucci, Nathan Hendler, Marco Tazzari, Enrico Ragusa, Colette Salyk, Suzan Edwards, Giuseppe Lodato, Gerrit Van De Plas, Doug Johnstone, Yao Liu, Yann Boehler, Sylvie Cabrit, Carlo F. Manara, Francois Menard, Gijs D. Mulders, Brunella Nisini, William J. Fischer, Elisabetta Rigliaco, Andrea Banzatti, Henning Avenhaus, Michael Gully-Santiago

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Rings are the most frequently revealed substructure in ALMA dust observations of protoplanetary disks, but their origin is still hotly debated. In this paper, we identify dust substructures in 12 disks and measure their properties to investigate how they form. This subsample of disks is selected from a high-resolution (∼ 0.1200) ALMA 1.33 mm survey of 32 disks in the Taurus star-forming region, which was designed to cover a wide range of sub-mm brightness and to be unbiased to previously known substructures. While axisymmetric rings and gaps are common within our sample, spiral patterns and high contrast azimuthal asymmetries are …


Simulation Of Black Hole Inner Accretion Disk-Corona And Optimization Of The Hard X-Ray Polarimeter, X-Calibur, Banafsheh Beheshtipour Aug 2018

Simulation Of Black Hole Inner Accretion Disk-Corona And Optimization Of The Hard X-Ray Polarimeter, X-Calibur, Banafsheh Beheshtipour

Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mass accreting stellar mass and supermassive black holes are strong sources of X-rays. The X- ray observations enable studies of the process of black hole accretion and give us information about the spacetime background. In the framework of my thesis work, I have continued the development of a general-relativistic ray-tracing code enabling the simulation of the Comptonization of photons in the hot accretion disk corona. I use the code to investigate the impact of various approximation schemes for modeling the Comptonization finding that a fully relativistic treatment is needed for accurate predictions in the soft and hard X- ray regimes …