Detecting T Tauri disks with optical long-baseline interferometry

1995/05/13 by F. Malbet, Malbet, F., C. Bertout +1
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astro and Planetary Science #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Space Exploration and Technology #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9505061

10 pages including figures and tables, uuencoded gz-compressed postscript; Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series

arxiv created 1995/05/13 · openalex publication_date 1995/05/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We present synthetic images of disks around T Tauri stars. We calculate visibility curves in order to study the possibility of directly detecting thermal emission from T Tauri disks. Total fluxes of T Tauri disks are compared to the sensitivity of VISA, the interferometric sub-array of the European Very Large Telescope. We conclude that thermal emission from circumstellar disk around T Tauri stars is detectable with current or soon-to-be interferometric techniques at wavelengths longer than 2.2 microns.

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