Studying depletion of gas from planet forming regions with the James Webb Space Telescope

With new data coming in from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) on protoplanetary disks around pre main sequence stars there is various opportunities for building our understanding on planet forming regions. This project is focused on identifying differences between disks with gas rich and gas poor spectra. The disks observed for this project have similar stellar properties. We use MIRI (the mid-infrared spectrograph on JWST) spectra that covers from 5-28 μm We are studying a number of chemical species including H₂O, C₂H₂, HCN, CO₂, OH, H2, HI, CO, and Ne. In this project we are specifically interested in understanding the depletion of gas from planet forming regions in terms of the magnitude, radius, temperature, and column density of these gas tracers.