Exploring the 13CO/C18O abundance ratio towards Galactic young stellar objects and HII regions
| Autor: | Sergio Ariel Paron, M. E. Ortega, M. B. Areal, M. Celis Peña |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Future studies
Young stellar object Milky Way purl.org/becyt/ford/1.7 [https] FOS: Physical sciences Astrophysics 01 natural sciences purl.org/becyt/ford/1 [https] Abundance (ecology) HII REGIONS FORMATION [STARS] 0103 physical sciences ABUNDANCES [GALAXY] ABUNDANCES [ISM] 010306 general physics 010303 astronomy & astrophysics James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Physics Isotope Photodissociation Otras Ciencias Naturales y Exactas Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Interstellar medium Space and Planetary Science MOLECULES [ISM] Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS |
| Zdroj: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas instacron:CONICET |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1712.09578 |
| Popis: | Determining molecular abundance ratios is important not only for the study of the Galactic chemistry but also because they are useful to estimate physical parameters in a large variety of interstellar medium environments. The CO is one of the most important molecules to trace the molecular gas in the interstellar medium, and the 13CO/C18O abundance ratio is usually used to estimate molecular masses and densities of regions with moderate to high densities. Nowadays this kind of isotopes ratios are in general indirectly derived from elemental abundances ratios. We present the first 13CO/C18O abundance ratio study performed from CO isotopes observations towards a large sample of Galactic sources of different nature at different locations. To study the 13CO/C18O abundance ratio it was used 12CO J=3-2 data obtained form the CO High-Resolution Survey, 13CO and C18O J=3-2 data from the 13CO/C18O (J=3-2) Heterodyne Inner Milky Way Plane Survey, and some complementary data extracted from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope database. It was analyzed a sample of 198 sources composed by young stellar objects (YSOs), HII and diffuse HII regions as catalogued in the Red MSX Source Survey in 27.5 < l < 46.5 and |b| < 0.5. Most of the analyzed sources are located in the galactocentric distance range 4.0-6.5 kpc. We found that YSOs have, in average, smaller 13CO/C18O abundance ratios than HII and diffuse HII regions. Taking into account that the gas associated with YSOs should be less affected by the radiation than in the case of the others sources, selective far-UV photodissociation of C18O is confirmed. The 13CO/C18O abundance ratios obtained in this work are systematically lower than the predicted from the known elemental abundance relations. These results would be useful in future studies of molecular gas related to YSOs and HII regions based on the observation of these isotopes. Accepted in A&A. (2017, December 22). Large Tables were converted to figures and included at the end of the manuscript |
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