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Chemical compositions in the vicinity of protostars in Ophiuchus

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2021-12-08 v3 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We have analyzed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 4 Band 6 data toward two young stellar objects (YSOs), Oph-emb5 and Oph-emb9, in the Ophiuchus star-forming region. The YSO Oph-emb5 is located in a relatively quiescent region, whereas Oph-emb9 is irradiated by a nearby bright Herbig Be star. Molecular lines from cycliccyclic-C3_{3}H2_{2} (cc-C3_{3}H2_{2}), H2_{2}CO, CH3_{3}OH, 13^{13}CO, C18^{18}O, and DCO+^{+} have been detected from both sources, while DCN is detected only in Oph-emb9. Around Oph-emb5, cc-C3_{3}H2_{2} is enhanced at the west side, relative to the IR source, whereas H2_{2}CO and CH3_{3}OH are abundant at the east side. In the field of Oph-emb9, moment 0 maps of the cc-C3_{3}H2_{2} lines show a peak at the eastern edge of the field of view, which is irradiated by the Herbig Be star. Moment 0 maps of CH3_{3}OH and H2_{2}CO show peaks farther from the bright star. We derive the NN(cc-C3_{3}H2_{2})/NN(CH3_{3}OH) column density ratios at the peak positions of cc-C3_{3}H2_{2} and CH3_{3}OH near each YSO, which are identified based on their moment 0 maps. The NN(cc-C3_{3}H2_{2})/NN(CH3_{3}OH) ratio at the cc-C3_{3}H2_{2} peak is significantly higher than at the CH3_{3}OH peak by a factor of 19\sim 19 in Oph-emb9, while the difference in this column density ratio between these two positions is a factor of 2.6\sim2.6 in Oph-emb5. These differences are attributed to the efficiency of the photon-dominated region (PDR) chemistry in Oph-emb9. The higher DCO+^{+} column density and the detection of DCN in Oph-emb9 are also discussed in the context of UV irradiation flux.

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@article{arxiv.2108.10993,
  title  = {Chemical compositions in the vicinity of protostars in Ophiuchus},
  author = {Kotomi Taniguchi and Liton Majumdar and Adele Plunkett and Shigehisa Takakuwa and Dariusz C. Lis and Paul F. Goldsmith and Fumitaka Nakamura and Masao Saito and Eric Herbst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10993},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

20 pages, 14 figures, 4 tables, Accepted by The Astrophysical Journal. We changed continuum images (Figure 2). We show the continuum images with only 12-m array data in this version. Since there are unknown issues when we combined 12-m and 7-m array data for the continuum image, the scales were wrong in the previous versions