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A New Reference Chemical Composition for TMC-1

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2016-10-04 v1

Abstract

Recent detections of complex organic molecules in dark clouds have rekindled interest in the astrochemical modeling of these environments. Because of its relative closeness and rich molecular complexity, TMC-1 has been extensively observed to study the chemical processes taking place in dark clouds. We use local thermodynamical equilibrium radiative transfer modeling coupled with a Bayesian statistical method which takes into account outliers to analyze the data from the Nobeyama spectral survey of TMC-1 between 8 and 50 GHz. We compute the abundance relative to molecular hydrogen of 57 molecules, including 19 isotopologues in TMC-1 along with their associated uncertainty. The new results are in general agreement with previous abundance determination from Ohishi & Kaifu and the values reported in the review from Agundez & Wakelam. However, in some cases, large opacity and low signal to noise effects allow only upper or lower limits to be derived, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1610.00524,
  title  = {A New Reference Chemical Composition for TMC-1},
  author = {P. Gratier and L. Majumdar and M. Ohishi and E. Roueff and J. -C. Loison and K. M. Hickson and V. Wakelam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.00524},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Accepted for publication in ApJS

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