First detection of doubly deuterated hydrogen sulfide

Details First detection of doubly deuterated hydrogen sulfide First detection of doubly deuterated hydrogen sulfide

2003-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307221v1

Astrophys.J.593:L97-L100,2003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 2 figures. accepted in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/378261

This work was carried out with using the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory and presents the observational study of HDS and D2S towards a sample of Class 0 sources, and dense cores. We report the first detection of doubly deuterated hydrogen sulfide (D2S) in two dense cores and analyze the chemistry of these molecules aiming to help understand the deuteration processes in the interstellar medium. The observed values of the D2S/HDS ratio, and upper limits, require an atomic D/H ratio in the accreting gas of 0.1-1. The study presented in this Letter supports the hypothesis that formaldehyde, methanol and hydrogen sulfide are formed on the grain surfaces, during the cold pre-stellar core phase, where the CO depleted gas has large atomic D/H ratios. The high values for the D/H ratios are consistent with the predictions of a recent gas-phase chemical model that includes H3+ and its deuterated isotopomers, H2D+, D2H+ and D3+ (Roberts et al. 2003).

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