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Astrochemical Properties of Planck Cold Clumps

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2020-04-27 v1

Abstract

We observed thirteen Planck cold clumps with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope/SCUBA-2 and with the Nobeyama 45 m radio telescope. The N2_2H+^+ distribution obtained with the Nobeyama telescope is quite similar to SCUBA-2 dust distribution. The 82 GHz HC3_3N, 82 GHz CCS, and 94 GHz CCS emission are often distributed differently with respect to the N2_2H+^+ emission. The CCS emission, which is known to be abundant in starless molecular cloud cores, is often very clumpy in the observed targets. We made deep single-pointing observations in DNC, HN13^{13}C, N2_2D+^+, cyclic-C3_3H2_2 toward nine clumps. The detection rate of N2_2D+^+ is 50\%. Furthermore, we observed the NH3_3 emission toward 15 Planck cold clumps to estimate the kinetic temperature, and confirmed that most of targets are cold (\lesssim 20 K). In two of the starless clumps observe, the CCS emission is distributed as it surrounds the N2_2H+^+ core (chemically evolved gas), which resembles the case of L1544, a prestellar core showing collapse. In addition, we detected both DNC and N2_2D+^+. These two clumps are most likely on the verge of star formation. We introduce the Chemical Evolution Factor (CEF) for starless cores to describe the chemical evolutionary stage, and analyze the observed Planck cold clumps.

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@article{arxiv.1612.00488,
  title  = {Astrochemical Properties of Planck Cold Clumps},
  author = {Ken'ichi Tatematsu and Tie Liu and Satoshi Ohashi and Patricio Sanhueza and Quang Nguyen-Luong and Tomoya Hirota and Sheng-Yuan Liu and Naomi Hirano and Minho Choi and Miju Kang and Mark Thompson and Garry Fuller and Yuefang Wu and James Di Francesco and Kee-Tae Kim and Ke Wang and Isabelle Ristorcelli and Mika Juvela and Hiroko Shinnaga and Maria R. Cunningham and Masao Saito and Jeong-Eun Lee and L. Viktor Toth and Jinhua He and Takeshi Sakai and Jungha Kim and JCMT Large Program "SCOPE" collaboration and TRAO Key Science Program "TOP" collaboration},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00488},
  year   = {2020}
}

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