The Gas Content Of Protoplanetary Herbig Ae/be Discs As Seen With Herschel

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Sep 2011

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American Astronomical Society, ESS meeting #2, #38.01

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The mechanisms determining planet formation are not (yet) well-understood. Primordial protoplanetary discs consist 99% out of gas, and only 1% out of dust. With time, those discs are believed to evolve from a flaring geometry into a flat geometry, as the initially small dust grains grow to larger sizes and settle towards the mid-plane. In the mean time, the gas will disperse, until so little is left that giant planets no longer can form. As an important piece of the puzzle of planet formation, it is important to understand the influence of the gas heating/cooling processes on the young disc structure, its chemical composition and finally how fast gas gets dispersed.
In this talk, we study the protoplanetary discs around Herbig Ae/Be stars, young objects of intermediate mass, in the context of its gas content. We present Herschel PACS spectroscopic observations for a sample that was obtained within the GASPS (Gas in Protoplanetary Systems) Open Time Key Project, concentrating on the detection and characterisation of emission lines of the [OI], [CII], and CO, tracing the disc between 5 and 500 AU. We look for correlations between the observed line fluxes and stellar properties such as effective temperature, Halpha emission, accretion rates and UV flux, as well as the disc properties: degree of flaring, presence and strength of PAH emission and disc mass. We will present a few cases to show how simultaneous modeling (using the thermo-chemical disc code ProDiMo) of the atomic fine structure lines and both molecular lines can constrain the disc gas mass, once the disc structure is derived. Finally, we compare our gas line observations with those of young debris disc stars, for which the HAEBE stars are thought to be progenitors.

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