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Astrophysics and Astronomy

2011

Protoplanetary disks

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Detection Of Ch+ Emission From The Disc Around Hd 100546, W F. Thi, F Menard, G Meeus, C. Martin-Zaidi, P Woitke, E Tatulli, M Benisty, I Kamp, I Pascucci, C Pinte, C A. Grady, Sean D. Brittain, G J. White, C D. Howard, G Sandell, C Eiroa Apr 2011

Detection Of Ch+ Emission From The Disc Around Hd 100546, W F. Thi, F Menard, G Meeus, C. Martin-Zaidi, P Woitke, E Tatulli, M Benisty, I Kamp, I Pascucci, C Pinte, C A. Grady, Sean D. Brittain, G J. White, C D. Howard, G Sandell, C Eiroa

Publications

Despite its importance in the thermal balance of the gas and in the determination of primeval planetary atmospheres, the chemistry in protoplanetary discs remains poorly constrained with only a handful of detected species. We observed the emission from the disc around the Herbig Be star HD 100546 with the PACS instrument in the spectroscopic mode on board the Herschel Space Telescope as part of the GAS in Protoplanetary Systems (GASPS) programme and used archival data from the DIGIT programme to search for the rotational emission of CH+. We detected in both datasets an emission line centred at 72.16 μm that …


Characterizing The Iyj Excess Continuum Emission In T Tauri Stars, William J. Fischer, Suzan Edwards, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, John Kwan Apr 2011

Characterizing The Iyj Excess Continuum Emission In T Tauri Stars, William J. Fischer, Suzan Edwards, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, John Kwan

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We present the first characterization of the excess continuum emission of accreting T Tauri stars between optical and near-infrared wavelengths. With nearly simultaneous spectra from 0.48 to 2.4μm acquired with HIRES and NIRSPEC on Keck and SpeX on the Infrared Telescope Facility, we find significant excess continuum emission throughout this region, including the I, Y, and J bands, which are usually thought to diagnose primarily photospheric emission. The IYJ excess correlates with the excess in the V band, attributed to accretion shocks in the photosphere, and the excess in the K band, attributed to dust in the inner …


The Unusual Protoplanetary Disk Around The T Tauri Star Et Chamaeleontis, P Woitke, B Riaz, G Duchene, I Pascucci, A Ran Lyo, W.R.F. Dent, N Phillips, W F. Thi, F Menard, G J. Herczeg, E Bergin, A Brown, A Mora, I Kamp, G Aresu, Sean D. Brittain, I De Gregorio-Monsalvo, G Sandell Mar 2011

The Unusual Protoplanetary Disk Around The T Tauri Star Et Chamaeleontis, P Woitke, B Riaz, G Duchene, I Pascucci, A Ran Lyo, W.R.F. Dent, N Phillips, W F. Thi, F Menard, G J. Herczeg, E Bergin, A Brown, A Mora, I Kamp, G Aresu, Sean D. Brittain, I De Gregorio-Monsalvo, G Sandell

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We present new continuum and line observations, along with modelling, of the faint (6−8) Myr old T Tauri star ETCha belonging to the η Chamaeleontis cluster. We have acquired Herschel/PACS photometric fluxes at 70 μm and 160 μm, as well as a detection of the [OI] 63 μm fine-structure line in emission, and derived upper limits for some other far-IR OI, CII, CO and o-H2O lines. These observations were carried out in the frame of the open time key programme GASPS, where ETCha was selected as one of the science demonstration phase targets. The Herschel data is complemented by new …