TransitionWidth

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This parameter is specific to a set of simulations performed to evaluate the efficiency of planet trapping at a disk temperature transition. Unless you want to reproduce these very specific simulations, you should simply ignore this variable. If you use it, you also have to define TransitionRadius and TransitionRatio. TransitionWidth is the radial distance, expressed in disk pressure scale heights (H), over which the temperature transition occurs. More precisely, the logarithm of the disk aspect ratio H/R is an affine function of r between  TransitionRadius-TransitionWidth*H  and  TransitionRadius+TransitionWidth*H.