Can I read The HIFI spectral survey of AFGL 2591 (CHESS). III. Chemical structure of the protostellar envelope on EtoBox?

The HIFI spectral survey of AFGL 2591 (CHESS). III. Chemical structure of the protostellar envelope by Kazmierczak-Barthel, Maja; Semenov, Dimitri; van der Tak, Floris; Chavarría, Luis; van der Wiel, Matthijs is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

What is The HIFI spectral survey of AFGL 2591 (CHESS). III. Chemical structure of the protostellar envelope about?

We aim to understand the rich chemical composition of AFGL 2591, a prototypical isolated high-mass star-forming region. Based on HIFI and JCMT data, the molecular abundances of species found in the protostellar envelope of AFGL 2591 were derived with the Monte Carlo radiative transfer code RATRAN, assuming either constant values or 1D stepwise radial profiles as abundance distributions. The reconstructed 1D abundances were compared with the results of time-dependent gas-grain chemical modeling, considering ages of 10,000 to 50,000 years, cosmic-ray ionization rates of 0.5 to 50 times 10^-16 s^-1, uniformly-sized 0.1-1 micron dust grains, a dust/gas ratio of 1%, and several sets of initial molecular abundances with C/O <1 and >1. Constant abundance models give good fits to the data for CO, CN, CS, HCO+, H2CO, N2H+, C2H, NO, OCS, OH, H2CS, O, C, C+, and CH. Models with an abundance jump at 100 K give good fits to the data for NH3, SO, SO2, H2S, H2O, HCl, and CH3OH. For HCN and HNC, the best models have an abundance jump at 230 K. The time-dependent chemical model can accurately explain abundance profiles of 15 out of these 24 species. The jump-like radial profiles for key species lik

Author

Kazmierczak-Barthel, Maja; Semenov, Dimitri; van der Tak, Floris; Chavarría, Luis; van der Wiel, Matthijs

Published

2014

Language

EN