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Sulfur-bearing molecules in Orion KL

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2019-12-20 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

We present an observational study of the sulfur (S)-bearing species towards Orion KL at 1.3 mm by combining ALMA and IRAM-30\,m single-dish data. At a linear resolution of \sim800 au and a velocity resolution of 1 kms1\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}\, }, we have identified 79 molecular lines from 6 S-bearing species. In these S-bearing species, we found a clear dichotomy between carbon-sulfur compounds and carbon-free S-bearing species in various characteristics, e.g., line profiles, spatial morphology, and molecular abundances with respect to H2\rm H_2. Lines from the carbon-sulfur compounds (i.e., OCS, 13^{13}CS, H2_2CS) exhibit spatial distributions concentrated around the continuum peaks and extended to the south ridge. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) linewidth of these molecular lines is in the range of 2 \sim 11 kms1\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}\, }. The molecular abundances of OCS and H2_2CS decrease slightly from the cold (\sim68 K) to the hot (\sim176 K) regions. In contrast, lines from the carbon-free S-bearing species (i.e., SO2_2, 34^{34}SO, H2_2S) are spatially more extended to the northeast of mm4, exhibiting broader FWHM linewidths (15 \sim 26 kms1\mathrm{km\, s^{-1}\, }). The molecular abundances of carbon-free S-bearing species increase by over an order of magnitude as the temperature increase from 50 K to 100 K. In particular, 34SO/34SO2\mathrm{^{34}SO/^{34}SO_2} and OCS/SO2\mathrm{OCS/SO_2} are enhanced from the warmer regions (>>100 K) to the colder regions (\sim50 K). Such enhancements are consistent with the transformation of SO2_2 at warmer regions and the influence of shocks.

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@article{arxiv.1910.01779,
  title  = {Sulfur-bearing molecules in Orion KL},
  author = {Gan Luo and Siyi Feng and Di Li and Sheng-Li Qin and Yaping Peng and Ningyu Tang and Zhiyuan Ren and Hui Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01779},
  year   = {2019}
}