Alain Baudry

TL;DR: Water In Star-forming regions with Herschel (WISH) as discussed by the authors is a key program on the Herschel Space Observatory designed to probe the physical and chemical structures of young stellar objects using water and related molecules and to follow the water abundance from collapsing clouds to planet-forming disks.

TL;DR: In this article, the integrated emissions of high-density tracer molecules were used for a first-order diagnosis of the integrated molecular environment of the evolving nuclear starbursts, and diagnostic diagrams showed significant differentiation among the sources that relate to the initial conditions and radiative excitation environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first results from the Herschel key project "Chemical HErschel Surveys of Star forming regions" (CHESS) were reported and discussed towards five CHESS targets, one outflow shock spot and four protostars with luminosities bewteen 20 and 2 × 105.

TL;DR: In this article, the first results of the unbiased survey of the L1157-B1 bow shock, obtained with HIFI in the framework of the key program Chemical HErschel Survey of Star forming regions (CHESS), were presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that passive heating of a spherical envelope by the protostellar luminosity cannot explain the high-excitation molecular gas detected with PACS, including CO lines with upper levels at > 2500 K above the ground state.