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Chemical variations across the TMC-1 boundary: molecular tracers from translucent phase to dense phase

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-04-11 v1

Abstract

We investigated the chemical evolutions of gas phase and grain surface species across the Taurus molecular cloud-1 (TMC-1) filament from translucent phase to dense phase. By comparing observations with modeling results from an up-to-date chemical network, we examined the conversion processes for the carbon-, oxygen-, nitrogen- and sulfur-bearing species, i.e.from their initial atomic form to their main molecular reservoir form both in the gas phase and on the grain surface. The conversion processes were found to depend on the species and AV_V. The effect of initial carbon to oxygen elemental abundances ratio (C/O) by varying O on the chemistry was explored, and an initial carbon elemental abundance of 2.5 ×\times 104^{-4} and a C/O ratio of 0.5 could best reproduce the abundances of most observed molecules at TMC-1 CP, where more than 90 molecules have been identified. Based on the TMC-1 condition, we predicted a varied grain ice composition during the evolutions of molecular clouds, with H2_2O ice as the dominant ice composition at AV_V >> 4 mag, CO2_2 ice as the dominant ice composition at AV_V << 4 mag, while CO ice severely decreased at AV_V around 4--5 mag.

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@article{arxiv.2203.00174,
  title  = {Chemical variations across the TMC-1 boundary: molecular tracers from translucent phase to dense phase},
  author = {Long-Fei Chen and Di Li and Donghui Quan and Xia Zhang and Qiang Chang and Xiaohu Li and Lin Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.00174},
  year   = {2022}
}

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25 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ