English

Sulphur-Bearing and Complex Organic Molecules in an Infrared Cold Core

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics 2020-01-08 v3 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Since the start of ALMA observatory operation, new and important chemistry of infrared cold core was revealed. Molecular transitions at millimeter range are being used to identify and to characterize these sources. We have investigated the 231 GHz ALMA archive observations of the infrared dark cloud region C9, focusing on the brighter source that we called as IRDC-C9 Main. We report the existence of two sub-structures on the continuum map of this source: a compact bright spot with high chemistry diversity that we labelled as core, and a weaker and extended one, that we labelled as tail. In the core, we have identified lines of the molecules OCS(19-18), 13^{13}CS(5-4) and CH3_{3}CH2_{2}CN, several lines of CH3_{3}CHO and the k-ladder emission of 13^{13}CH3_{3}CN.We report two different temperature regions: while the rotation diagram of CH3_{3}CHO indicates a temperature of 25 K, the rotation diagram of 13^{13}CH3_{3}CN indicates a warmer phase at temperature of 450\sim450K. In the tail, only the OCS(19-18) and 13^{13}CS(5-4) lines were detected. We used the NautilusNautilus and the \textsc{Radex} codes to estimate the column densities and the abundances. The existence of hot gas in the core of IRDC-C9 Main suggests the presence of a protostar, which is not present in the tail.

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@article{arxiv.1910.10805,
  title  = {Sulphur-Bearing and Complex Organic Molecules in an Infrared Cold Core},
  author = {Pedro P. B. Beaklini and Edgar Mendoza and Carla M. Canelo and Isabel Aleman and Manuel Merello and Shuo Kong and Felipe Navarete and Eduardo Janot-Pacheco and Zulema Abraham and Jacques R. D. Lépine and Amaury A. de Almeida and Amâncio C. S. Friaça},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.10805},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

13 pages, 11 figures. Accept in MNRAS