The chemical inventory of the inner regions of planet-forming disks – the JWST/MINDS program
I. Kamp, Thomas Henning, Aditya M. Arabhavi, Giulio Bettoni, Valentin Christiaens, Danny Gasman, Sierra L. Grant, M. Morales‐Calderón, Benoît Tabone, A. Abergel, Olivier Absil, Ioannis Argyriou, D. Barrado, A. Boccaletti, J. Bouwman, A. Caratti o Garatti, E. F. van Dishoeck, Vincent Geers, Adrian M. Glauser, M. Güdel, Rodrigo Guadarrama, Hyerin Jang, J. S. Kanwar, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, F. Lahuis, Michael Mueller, Cyrine Nehmé, G. Olofsson, E. Pantin, Nicole Pawellek, Giulia Perotti, T. P. Ray, Donna Rodgers-Lee, M. Samland, Silvia Scheithauer, J. Schreiber, Kamber R. Schwarz, Milou Temmink, B. Vandenbussche, Marissa Vlasblom, Christoffel Waelkens, L. B. F. M. Waters, Gillian Wright
Abstract
. This contribution will present the first results of the MINDS (MIRI mid-INfrared Disk Survey, PI:Th Henning) project. Due do the sensitivity and spectral resolution provided by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we now have a unique tool to obtain the full inventory of chemistry in the inner disks of solar-type stars and brown dwarfs, including also less-abundant hydrocarbons and isotopologues. The Integral Field Unit (IFU) capabilities will enable at the same time spatial studies of the continuum and line emission in extended sources such as debris disks, the flying saucer and also the search for mid-IR signatures of forming planets in systems such as PDS 70. These JWST observations are complementary to ALMA and NOEMA observations of outer-disk chemistry; together these datasets will provide an integral view of the processes occurring during the planet-formation phase.