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Signatures of warm carbon monoxide in protoplanetary discs observed with Herschel SPIRE

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Date
11/11/2014
Author
van der Wiel, M. H. D.
Naylor, D. A.
Kamp, I.
Ménard, F.
Thi, W.-F.
Woitke, Peter
Olofsson, G.
Pontoppidan, K. M.
Di Francesco, J.
Glauser, A. M.
Greaves, Jane Sophia
Ivison, R. J.
Funder
Science & Technology Facilities Council
Grant ID
ST/J001651/1
Keywords
Astrochemistry
Protoplanetary discs
Circumstellar matter
Stars: variables: T Tauri, Herbig Ae/Be
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
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Molecular gas constitutes the dominant mass component of protoplanetary discs. To date, these sources have not been studied comprehensively at the longest far-infrared and shortest submillimetre wavelengths. This paper presents Herschel SPIRE FTS spectroscopic observations toward 18 protoplanetary discs, covering the entire 450-1540 GHz (666-195 μm) range at v/Δv~400-1300. The spectra reveal clear detections of the dust continuum and, in six targets, a significant amount of spectral line emission primarily attributable to 12CO rotational lines. Other targets exhibit little to no detectable spectral lines. Low signal-to-noise detections also include signatures from 13CO, [CI] and HCN. For completeness, we present upper limits of non-detected lines in all targets, including low-energy transitions of H2O and CH+ molecules. The ten 12CO lines that fall within the SPIRE FTS bands trace energy levels of ~50-500 K. Combined with lower and higher energy lines from the literature, we compare the CO rotational line energy distribution with detailed physical-chemical models, for sources where these are available and published. Our 13CO line detections in the disc around Herbig Be star HD 100546 exceed, by factors of ~10-30, the values predicted by a model that matches a wealth of other observational constraints, including the SPIRE 12CO ladder. To explain the observed 12CO/13CO ratio, it may be necessary to consider the combined effects of optical depth and isotope selective (photo)chemical processes. Considering the full sample of 18 objects, we find that the strongest line emission is observed in discs around Herbig Ae/Be stars, although not all show line emission. In addition, two of the six T Tauri objects exhibit detectable 12CO lines in the SPIRE range.
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van der Wiel , M H D , Naylor , D A , Kamp , I , Ménard , F , Thi , W-F , Woitke , P , Olofsson , G , Pontoppidan , K M , Di Francesco , J , Glauser , A M , Greaves , J S & Ivison , R J 2014 , ' Signatures of warm carbon monoxide in protoplanetary discs observed with Herschel SPIRE ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 444 , no. 4 , pp. 3911-3925 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1462
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu1462
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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© 2014. The Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 
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MHDvdW and DAN are supported by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). IK, WFT and PW acknowledge funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7-2011 under grant agreement no. 284405.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5695

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