Observing Carbon & Oxygen Carriers in Protoplanetary Disks at Mid-infrared Wavelengths

D. E. Anderson, G. A. Blake, L. I. Cleeves +5

Infrared observations probe the warm gas in the inner regions of planet-forming disks around young sun-like, T Tauri stars. In these systems, H${}_2$O, OH, CO, CO${}_2$, C${}_2$H${}_2$, an…