The TEXES/IRTF H2 Survey of Disk Sources

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.0902r&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #09.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1163

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We used TEXES, the Texas Echelon-cross-Echelle Spectrograph (Lacy et al. 2002), on the 3m NASA IRTF to search for mid-infrared rotational H2 emission from 18 young stellar objects. TEXES is a high spectral resolution, mid-infrared spectrograph in use on the 3m IRTF since 2000 and scheduled to become available as a visitor instrument on Gemini-North in 2006B. We concentrated on the J=3-1 (17.03 micron) and J=4-2 (12.28 micron) lines, spending roughly one hour of time for each line on each source. The high spectral resolution of TEXES gives R 60,000 for J=3-1 and R 80,000 for J=4-2. In certain cases, we also observed the J=6-4 (8.025 micron) feature. Roughly a third of the sources show either clear or potential detections. For the best cases, we have velocity-resolved information regarding the line flux at three separate transitions and can investigate the physical conditions of the emitting gas. Ratios of these mid-infrared lines are sensitive to gas with temperatures between roughly 200 and 800 K. Even non-detections can establish limits to the amount of warm, isolated H2 in the system.
Observations with TEXES are supported by NSF grant AST-0205518. MJR is supported by NASA award NNG04GG92G and NSF award AST-0307497.

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