Detecting T Tauri disks with optical long-baseline interferometry
Abstract
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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.
10 pages including figures and tables, uuencoded gz-compressed postscript; Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series
10 pages including figures and tables, uuencoded gz-compressed postscript; Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series