DIGIT survey of far-infrared lines from protoplanetary discs: II. CO

Abstract

CO is an important component of a protoplanetary disc as it is one of the most abundant gas phase species. Furthermore, observations of the CO transitions can be used as a diagnostic of the gas, tracing conditions in both the inner and outer disc. We present Herschel/PACS spectroscopy of a sample of 22 Herbig Ae/Be (HAEBEs) and 8 T Tauri stars (TTS), covering the pure rotational CO transitions from J = 14-13 up to J = 49-48. CO is detected in only 5 HAEBEs, AB Aur, HD 36112, HD 97048, HD 100546 and IRS 48, and in 4 TTS, AS 205, S CrA, RU Lup, and DG Tau. The highest transition seen is J = 36-35, with Eup of 3669 K, detected in HD 100546 and DG Tau. We construct rotational diagrams for the discs with at least 3 CO detections to derive Trot, and find average temperatures of 270 K for the HAEBEs and 485 K for the TTS. HD 100546 requires an extra temperature component with Trot ~ 900-1000 K, suggesting a range of temperatures in its disc atmosphere, consistent with thermo-chemical disc models. In HAEBEs, the objects with CO detections all have flared discs in which the gas and dust are thermally decoupled. We use a small model grid to analyse our observations and find that an increased amount of flaring means higher line flux, as it increases the mass in warm gas. CO is not detected in our flat discs as the emission is below the detection limit. We find that HAEBE sources with CO detections have high Luv and strong PAH emission, again connected to the heating of the gas. In TTS, the objects with CO detections are all sources with evidence for a disc wind or outflow. For both groups of objects, sources with CO detections generally have high UV luminosity (either stellar in HAEBEs or due to accretion in TTS), but this is not a sufficient condition for the detection of the far-IR CO lines.

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