CI, CO and 790 μm continuum observations of the Orion molecular cloud and ionisation bar.

Details CI, CO and 790 μm continuum observations of the Orion molecular cloud and ionisation bar. CI, CO and 790 μm continuum observations of the Orion molecular cloud and ionisation bar.

Jul 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995a%26a...299..179w&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics, v.299, p.179

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

50

Ism: Atoms, Ism: Molecules, Ism: Orion Cloud, Ism: Orion Bar, Ism: Abundances, Radio Lines: Ism

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The spatial distributions of the ^3^P_1_-^3^P_0_ atomic fine structure of carbon (CI), the CO J=43,-the CO J=21-transitions of CO, ^13^CO, C^18^O and C^17^O and the 790μm continuum emission have been mapped towards the central region of the Orion molecular cloud (OMC1 cloud), and the Bright Bar ionisation front. The CO data are analysed in a consistent way, allowing the inter isotopomeric abundance ratios to be studied over a wide range of extinction values. The ^13^CO lines are optically thick; the ^13^CO abundance being enhanced because of strong isotopic fractionation near the Bright Bar, but less convincingly in the OMC1 cloud. The fractionation occurs mostly in the less opaque regions where the ^13^CO column density N(^13^CO) may be enhanced by up to one order of magnitude, relative to the more shielded parts. No isotope selective enhancement of the other CO isotopomers was seen; C^18^O may in fact show a slight depletion in more exposed material. The C^18^O and C^17^O lines are optically thin, and correlated with the 790μm dust continuum emission. The C I emission comes from hot optically thin gas; the abundance ratios of [CI]/[CO] are typically 0.05-0.3, with the larger ratios towards the northern section of the Orion ridge. The CI abundance ratios remain high along the edge of the Bright Bar which is adjacent to the HII region (and the Trapezium cluster which excites it), but decrease in the dense shielded material behind the Bar.

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