Assume a passive disk has local isothermal sound speed squared , disk scale height , and irradiated height with constant . Its irradiation grazing angle of a disk and Stefan–Boltzmann law give for , where . Integrating gives , with . Where the first term dominates and the thin disk assumptions hold, , and . The law cannot be extrapolated into a geometrically thick region using the same grazing-angle approximation.
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