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SUMMARY:Radiation thermo-chemical models of protoplanetary disks - Tilling
 \, I (Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20091110T102000Z
DTEND:20091110T104000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:The gas in protoplanetary disks plays host to any number of mi
 crophysical and chemical processes. By solving the chemical network couple
 d to 2D radiative transfer and hydrostatic balance calculations\, self-con
 sistent steady state models can be obtained for the thermal and chemical d
 isk structure. These models can be used as input for atomic and molecular 
 line transfer calculations in order to predict the line emission character
 istics and SED continuum for a given model. This represents a powerful too
 l for probing the vertical and radial structure of protoplanetary disks. I
  present work done with the thermo-chemical disk model ProDiMo\, and outli
 ne the potential of current missions such as Herschel to constrain these m
 odels. The line emission is sensitive in general to conditions in the cool
  outer disk (at several hundred AU from the central object)\, and so can b
 e used to probe these regions and constrain the initial conditions for pla
 net formation.
LOCATION:Satellite
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