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Protoplanetary disks around Herbig Ae/Be stars: Indications from ISO spectroscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

M.E. van den Ancker
M.E. van den Ancker*
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS 42, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Abstract

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An analysis of solid-state features in infrared spectra of 46 Herbig Ae/Be stars is presented. The presence of solid-state emission bands is compared to other indicators of circumstellar material, such as Hα emission, optical variability and sub-mm continuum fluxes. The correlation between these different indicators is weak, if present at all, in our sample. However, a strong dependence on spectral type of the central star seems to be present: stars with spectral type earlier than B9 show either amorphous silicate in absorption or infrared spectra dominated by PAH emission, whereas more than 70% of the stars of later spectral type show silicate emission. We conclude that the infrared spectrum of Herbig Be stars is in general dominated by emission from the circumstellar envelope, whereas the lower-mass Herbig Ae stars show a spectrum that is dominated by a disk that is passively heated by the central star.

Type
Part IV: Protoplanetary and β Pic disks
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 381 - 383
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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