Gas signatures of Herbig Ae/Be disks probed with Herschel SPIRE spectroscopy

Abstract

Herbig Ae/Be objects, like their lower mass counterparts T Tauri stars, are seen to form a stable circumstellar disk which is initially gas-rich and could ultimately form a planetary system. We present Herschel SPIRE 460-1540 GHz spectra of five targets out of a sample of 13 young disk sources, showing line detections mainly due to warm CO gas.

to be published in proceedings of IAU symposium 299 (Victoria, BC, Canada, June 2013)