"Detailed" outburst simulation. (a) Relative disk thickness as a function of radial position. Absolute thickness (﹩H_{d}﹩) decreases only between 0.04 and 0.13 AU (cf. Fig. 3). (b) Temperature profiles. Surface temperatures of detailed model over five iterations (solid lines), initial, accretion‐only surface temperatures (dashed line), and midplane temperatures for unilluminated models with ﹩\alpha =10^{-4}﹩ and ﹩10^{-2}﹩ (dot‐dashed lines, upper and lower respectively). (c) Spectral energy distributions. Star (asterisks), detailed model, final iteration (solid line) and accretion only (dashed line). Dotted lines in all three panels are used to test the effect of the increased surface temperature on the disk shape; see discussion in the text (§ 4.3.3).