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Herschel HIFI Studies of Star Formation

WISH

This program aims at obtaining a comprehensive set of water observations towards a large sample of protostars, covering a wide range of masses and luminosities -from the lowest to the highest mass protostars-, and a large range of evolutionary stages -from the first stages represented by the pre-stellar cores to the last stages represented by the pre-main sequence
stars surrounded only by their protostellar disks.

CHESS

This program will provide the community with a coherent study of the line spectra in the HIFI frequency range (500-2000GHz) of star forming regions as a function of mass and evolution. The main goals of the program are:  i) to guide future observations with Herschel ii) to provide a legacy database for the use of the general astronomy community.

For more information please contact Serena Viti.