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 Title: 

            Optical and NIR observations of disks

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 Authors:

          F. Menard, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Grenoble

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 Abstract: 

Through several examples, taken from numerous groups, I will describe
the large scale properties of disks around young low-mass stars. The
examples will include ground-based adaptive optics imaging and dual
beam polarimetry, as well as space-based imaging and coronagraphy. As
much as possible, I will try to use the most recent material
available. I will describe the general appearance of disks extracted
from high resolution scattered light images over as large a wavelenth
range as possible, from the optical to the mid-infrared.

Because the scattering process is intimately linked to the dust
optical properties, I will also briefly describe the dust properties
derived from models of the intensity and polarisation maps.

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