EAS Publications Series

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume 6  

Research Article

Brown Dwarf Disks - A Challenge for MIDI

Observing with the VLTI, Les Houches, France.

I. Pascuccia1, D. Apaia1, S. Wolfa2 and Th. Henninga1

a1 AIU Jena, Schillergaesschen 2-3, 07745 Jena, Germany

a2 California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd., 220-6 Pasadena, CA 91106, USA

Abstract

We carried out Radiative Transfer (RT) calculations to investigate the properties of disks around young, Very Low Mass Objects (VLMOs) and Brown Dwarfs (BDs). We explore the possibility of resolving such disks in the mid-infrared with MIDI depending on the parameters: source distance and declination, disk inclination and extension.

(Online publication January 31 2003)