Water deuterium fractionation in the high-mass star-forming region G34.26+0.15 based on Herschel/HIFI data
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014
Understanding water deuterium fractionation is important for constraining the mechanisms of water formation in interstellar clouds. Observations of HDO and H182O transitions were carried out towards the high-mass star-forming region G34.26+0.15 with the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far-Infrared (HIFI) instrument onboard the Herschel Space Observatory, as well as with ground-based single-dish telescopes. 10 HDO lines and three H182O lines covering a broad range of upper energy levels (22–204 K) were detected. We used a non-local thermal equilibrium 1D analysis to determine the HDO/H2O ratio as a function of radius in the envelope. Models with different water abundance distributions were considered in order to reproduce the observed line profiles. The HDO/H2O ratio is found to be lower in the hot core (∼3.5 × 10−4–7.5 × 10−4) than in the colder envelope (∼1.0 × 10−3–2.2 × 10−3). This is the first time that a radial variation of the HDO/H2O ratio has been found to occur in a high-mass source. The chemical evolution of this source was modelled as a function of its radius and the observations are relatively well reproduced. The comparison between the chemical model and the observations leads to an age of ∼105 yr after the infrared dark cloud stage.
astrochemistry ISM: abundances ISM: individual objects: G34.26+0.15 ISM: molecules
Författare
A. Coutens
Niels Bohr Institute
Köpenhamns universitet
C. Vastel
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Université de Toulouse
U Hincelin
University of Virginia
E. Herbst
University of Virginia
D. Lis
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC)
L. Chavarría
Universidad de Chile (UCH)
M. Gerin
Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
F. F. S. van der Tak
Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Carina Persson
Chalmers, Rymd- och geovetenskap, Radioastronomi och astrofysik
P.E. Goldsmith
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
E. Caux
Université de Toulouse
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
0035-8711 (ISSN) 1365-2966 (eISSN)
Vol. 445 2 1299-1313Ämneskategorier
Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi
Fundament
Grundläggande vetenskaper
Infrastruktur
Onsala rymdobservatorium
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stu1816