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Spectral Tomography for the Line-of-Sight Structures of the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-09-19 v1

Abstract

We clarify the line-of-sight structure of the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TMC-1) on the basis of the CCS(JN=4332J_N=4_3-3_2) and HC3_3N(J=54J=5-4) spectral data observed at a very high velocity resolution and sensitivity of ΔV0.0004\Delta V \simeq 0.0004 km s1^{-1} (=61=61 Hz) and ΔTmb40\Delta T_{\rm mb} \simeq 40 mK. The data were obtained toward the cyanopolyyne peak with \sim30 hours integration using the Z45 receiver and the PolariS spectrometer installed in the Nobeyama 45m telescope. Analyses of the optically thin F=44F=4-4 and 555-5 hyperfine lines of the HC3_3N emission show that the spectra consist of four distinct velocity components with a small line width (0.1\lesssim 0.1 km s1^{-1}) at VLSR=V_{\rm LSR}=5.727, 5.901, 6.064, and 6.160 km s1^{-1}, which we call A, B, C, and D, respectively, in the order of increasing LSR velocities. Utilizing the velocity information of the four velocity components, we further analyzed the optically thicker CCS spectrum and the other hyperfine lines of the HC3_3N emission by solving the radiative transfer to investigate how the four velocity components overlap along the line of sight. Results indicate that they are located in the order of A, B, C, and D from far side to near side to the observer, indicating that TMC-1 is shrinking, moving inward as a whole.

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@article{arxiv.1808.01802,
  title  = {Spectral Tomography for the Line-of-Sight Structures of the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1},
  author = {Kazuhito Dobashi and Tomomi Shimoikura and Fumitaka Nakamura and Seiji Kameno and Izumi Mizuno and Kotomi Taniguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.01802},
  year   = {2018}
}

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