Chemical Differentiation around Five Massive Protostars Revealed by ALMA -Carbon-Chain Species, Oxygen-/Nitrogen-Bearing Complex Organic Molecules- [GA]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13873


We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Band 3 data toward five massive young stellar objects (MYSOs), and investigate relationships between unsaturated carbon-chain species and saturated complex organic molecules (COMs). An HC${5}$N ($J=35-34$) line has been detected from three MYSOs, where nitrogen(N)-bearing COMs (CH${2}$CHCN and CH${3}$CH${2}$CN) have been detected. The HC${5}$N spatial distributions show compact features and match with a methanol (CH${3}$OH) line with an upper-state energy around 300 K, which should trace hot cores. The hot regions are more extended around the MYSOs where N-bearing COMs and HC${5}$N have been detected compared to two MYSOs without these molecular lines, while there are no clear differences in the bolometric luminosity and temperature. We run chemical simulations of hot-core models with a warm-up stage, and compare with the observational results. The observed abundances of HC${5}$N and COMs show good agreements with the model at the hot-core stage with temperatures above 160 K. These results indicate that carbon-chain chemistry around the MYSOs cannot be reproduced by warm carbon-chain chemistry, and a new type of carbon-chain chemistry occurs in hot regions around MYSOs.

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K. Taniguchi, L. Majumdar, P. Caselli, et. al.
Fri, 28 Apr 23
24/68

Comments: Accepted by the publication for The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 32 pages,18 figures, 11 tables