Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-1-2010

Publication Title

Journal of the Southeastern Association fo Research in Astronomy

Volume

4

Publisher

Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy

Abstract

Protoplanetary accretion disks are disks of dust and gas which surround and feed material onto a forming star in the earliest stages of its evolution. One of the most useful methods for studying these disks is near infrared spectroscopy of rovibrational CO emission. This paper presents the methods in which synthetically generated spectra are modeled and fit to spectral data gathered from protoplanetary disks. This paper also discussed the methods in which this code can be improved by modifying the code to run a Monte Carlo analysis of best fit across the CONDOR cluster at Clemson University, thereby allowing for the creation of a catalog of protoplanetary disks with detailed information about them as gathered from the model.

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This manuscript has been published in the Journal of the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy. Please find the published version here (note that a subscription may be necessary to access this version):

http://jsara.org/JSARA-V04/ms0408-Kronberg.pdf

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