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V819 Tau: A Rare Weak-Lined T Tauri Star with a Weak Infrared Excess
We use Spitzer data to infer that the small infrared excess of V819 Tau, a
weak-lined T Tauri star in Taurus, is real and not attributable to a
"companion" 10 arcsec to the south. We do not confirm the mid-infrared excess
in HBC 427 and V410 X-ray 3, which are also non-accreting T Tauri stars in the
same region; instead, for the former object, the excess arises from a red
companion 9 arcsec to the east. A single-temperature blackbody fit to the
continuum excess of V819 Tau implies a dust temperature of 143 K; however, a
better fit is achieved when the weak 10 and 20 micron silicate emission
features are also included. We infer a disk of sub-micron silicate grains
between about 1 AU and several 100 AU with a constant surface density
distribution. The mid-infrared excess of V819 Tau can be successfully modeled
with dust composed mostly of small amorphous olivine grains at a temperature of
85 K, and most of the excess emission is optically thin. The disk could still
be primordial, but gas-poor and therefore short-lived, or already at the debris
disk stage, which would make it one of the youngest debris disk systems known.Comment: 7 pages, 7 figures; accepted for publication in Ap
For the Practitioner: Bluer Skies in Maryland: An Introduction to the New Maryland Exemptions for Limited and Private Offerings of Securities
Lena K. Sargent Correspondence
Entries include brief biographical information, a typed introductory letter from the Maine State Library in receipt of a book gift, a typed letter of reply on Portland Maine School of Commerce stationery from Sargent preparing to send the manuscript of her new Bruce book, and a typed copy of Sargent\u27s poem Orono, not published at the time
For the Practitioner: Bluer Skies in Maryland: An Introduction to the New Maryland Exemptions for Limited and Private Offerings of Securities
Steady-state Ab Initio Laser Theory: Generalizations and Analytic Results
We improve the steady-state ab initio laser theory (SALT) of Tureci et al. by
expressing its fundamental self-consistent equation in a basis set of threshold
constant flux states that contains the exact threshold lasing mode. For
cavities with non-uniform index and/or non-uniform gain, the new basis set
allows the steady-state lasing properties to be computed with much greater
efficiency. This formulation of the SALT can be solved in the single-pole
approximation, which gives the intensities and thresholds, including the
effects of nonlinear hole-burning interactions to all orders, with negligible
computational effort. The approximation yields a number of analytic
predictions, including a "gain-clamping" transition at which strong modal
interactions suppress all higher modes. We show that the single-pole
approximation agrees well with exact SALT calculations, particularly for high-Q
cavities. Within this range of validity, it provides an extraordinarily
efficient technique for modeling realistic and complex lasers.Comment: 17 pages, 11 figure
The circumbinary disk of HD 98800B: Evidence for disk warping
The quadruple young stellar system HD 98800 consists of two spectroscopic binary pairs with a circumbinary disk around the B component. Recent work by Boden and collaborators using infrared interferometry and radial velocity data resulted in a determination of the physical orbit for HD 98800B. We use the resulting inclination of the binary and the measured extinction toward the B component stars to constrain the distribution of circumbinary material. Although a standard optically and geometrically thick disk model can reproduce the spectral energy distribution, it cannot account for the observed extinction if the binary and the disk are coplanar. We next constructed a dynamical model to investigate the influence of the A component, which is not in the BaâBb orbital plane, on the B disk. We find that these interactions have a substantial impact on the inclination of the B circumbinary disk with respect to the BaâBb orbital plane. The resulting warp would be sufficient to place material into the line of sight and the noncoplanar disk orientation may also cause the upper layers of the disk to intersect the line of sight if the disk is geometrically thick. These simulations also support that the dynamics of the BaâBb orbit clear the inner region to a radius of~3 AU. We then discuss whether the somewhat unusual properties of the HD 98800B disk are consistent with material remnant from the star formation process or with more recent creation by collisions from larger bodies
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