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EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume 102, 2015
Summer School “Protoplanetary Disks: Theory and Modeling Meet Observations”
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Article Number | 00011 | |
Number of page(s) | 28 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510200011 | |
Published online | 23 September 2015 |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510200011
Heating and cooling processes in disks*
SUPA, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews KY16 9SS, UK
Published online: 23 September 2015
This chapter summarises current theoretical concepts and methods to determine the gas temperature structure in protoplanetary disks by balancing all relevant heating and cooling rates. The processes considered are non-LTE line heating/cooling based on the escape probability method, photo-ionisation heating and recombination cooling, free-free heating/cooling, dust thermal accommodation and high-energy heating processes such as X-ray and cosmic ray heating, dust photoelectric and PAH heating, a number of particular follow-up heating processes starting with the UV excitation of H2, and the release of binding energy in exothermal reactions. The resulting thermal structure of protoplanetary disks is described and discussed.
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